Hello, On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:22:47AM -0400, David Shaw wrote: > On Jun 30, 2011, at 5:49 AM, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:07:11AM -0400, David Shaw wrote: > >> Is there some way to tell libata that those ports shouldn't even be > >> probed? Alternately, is there a way to selectively prevent those > >> messages from being logged (without affecting the logging for the > >> rest of the boot)? Or perhaps a third solution? > > > > Can you attach the output of "lspci -nn" and full boot log? > > Sure. > > ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 > ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ] > scsi0 : ata_piix > scsi1 : ata_piix > ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xe8e0 ctl 0xe8d0 bmdma 0xec00 irq 23 > ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xe8e8 ctl 0xe8d4 bmdma 0xec08 irq 23 > ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: PCI INT D -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 > ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ] > scsi2 : ata_piix > scsi3 : ata_piix > ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xe8f0 ctl 0xe8d8 bmdma 0xec20 irq 22 > ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xe8f8 ctl 0xe8dc bmdma 0xec28 irq 22 ... > ata2.00: failed to resume link (SControl 0) > ata4: failed to resume link (SControl 0) > ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 0) > ata1.01: failed to resume link (SControl 0) > ata1.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > ata2.01: failed to resume link (SControl 0) > ata2.00: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) Hmmm.... I don't think there's any easy way to suppress the above messages; however, the reason why they get printed through is because they're marked KERN_ERR, but it isn't necessarily an error condition and we should be fine with KERN_WARNING. Does the following make the issue go away? Thanks. diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c index 736bee5..0044370 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -3552,7 +3552,7 @@ int sata_link_resume(struct ata_link *link, const unsigned long *params, } while ((scontrol & 0xf0f) != 0x300 && --tries); if ((scontrol & 0xf0f) != 0x300) { - ata_link_printk(link, KERN_ERR, + ata_link_printk(link, KERN_WARNING, "failed to resume link (SControl %X)\n", scontrol); return 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html