linux-kernel - RE: [patch 10/45] Reduce ACPI verbosity on null handle condition

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Date:	Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:33:58 -0700
From:	"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@...el.com>
To:	"Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<stable@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [patch 10/45] Reduce ACPI verbosity on null handle condition

This change was made in ACPICA version 20060210

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@...e.de]
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:27 AM
> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; stable@...nel.org
> Cc: Justin Forbes; Zwane Mwaikambo; Theodore Ts'o; Randy Dunlap; Dave
> Jones; Chuck Wolber; Chris Wedgwood; torvalds@...l.org; akpm@...l.org;
> alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk; Brown, Len; Moore, Robert; Daniel Drake;
Chris
> Wright; Greg Kroah-Hartman
> Subject: [patch 10/45] Reduce ACPI verbosity on null handle condition
> 
> -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.
> 
> ------------------
> From: Bob Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>
> 
> As detailed at http://bugs.gentoo.org/131534 :
> 
> 2.6.16 converted many ACPI debug messages into error or warning
> messages. One extraneous message was incorrectly converted, resulting
in
> logs being flooded by "Handle is NULL and Pathname is relative"
messages
> on some systems.
> 
> This patch (part of a larger ACPICA commit) converts the message back
to
> debug level.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/namespace/nsxfeval.c |    5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.17.3.orig/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsxfeval.c
> +++ linux-2.6.17.3/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsxfeval.c
> @@ -238,8 +238,9 @@ acpi_evaluate_object(acpi_handle handle,
>  			ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO,
>  				    "Both Handle and Pathname are
NULL"));
>  		} else {
> -			ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO,
> -				    "Handle is NULL and Pathname is
relative"));
> +			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO,
> +					  "Null Handle with relative
pathname [%s]",
> +					  pathname));
>  		}
> 
>  		status = AE_BAD_PARAMETER;
> 
> --
-
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