linux-kernel - Confusing stream of atkbd messages after failed boot

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Date:	Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:56:13 +0000
From:	"Alan J. Wylie" <alan@...ie.me.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Confusing stream of atkbd messages after failed boot

On upgrading to 2.6.19, I didn't bother reading the release notes, did
a "make oldconfig", and rebooted. The boot failed (since the SATA
.config options had been moved) and I was presented with a continous
stream of error messages:

atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio
  Some program might be trying to access hardware directly.

These seem to be as a result of the keyboard LEDs being flashed.

They cause the real error message:

Cannot open root device

and the preceding kernel messages which show a lack of detection of
the SATA hard drive to be rapidly scrolled off screen.

The atkbd message should at the very least be rate limited.

-- 
Alan J. Wylie                                          http://www.wylie.me.uk/
"Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add,
but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
  -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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