Bug#578129: [stable] please apply "skip sense logging for some ATA PASS-THROUGH cdbs" from 2.6.33
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 11:27:56PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Robert Edmonds wrote:
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Version: 2.6.32-11
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > when SATA drives are attached to SAS controllers and used in ATA
> > pass-through mode, many operations cause alarming but harmless messages
> > (though it may not be immediately obvious to the user that they are
> > harmless) to be written to the kernel log, e.g.:
> >
> > [1381579.095459] sd 8:0:23:0: [sdx] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] [descriptor]
> > [1381579.095518] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
> > [1381579.095549] 72 01 00 1d 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > [1381579.095614] 00 4f 00 c2 00 50
> > [1381579.095654] sd 8:0:23:0: [sdx] Add. Sense: ATA pass through information available
> >
> > i see these types of messages at boot as well as periodically due to the
> > use of smartmontools. if you have a lot of disks your kernel log will
> > be spammed.
> >
> > can you apply commit e7efe5932b1d3916c79326a4221693ea90a900e2 from
> > 2.6.33 to suppress these messages?
>
> Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578129
>
> Greg, please consider for the next 2.6.32.x stable kernel, it applies cleanly
> against 2.6.32.12.
And against the .33-stable tree as well.
Queued up for both now.
thanks,
greg k-h
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