linux-kernel - Re: dell-wmi: Received unknown WMI event (0x11)

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Message-ID: <20110205181836.GC2830@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com>
Date:	Sat, 5 Feb 2011 20:18:36 +0200
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dell-wmi: Received unknown WMI event (0x11)

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 06:11:41PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 08:08:59PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 05:44:17PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 07:41:25PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Nothing's changed in dell-wmi in that timeframe, so I suspect it's some 
> > > > > other issue that's triggering here and the hardware is responding by 
> > > > > sending events? Alternatively, these messages are pretty spread out. Do 
> > > > > they directly correspond to you trying to burn something?
> > > > 
> > > > it's actually right after inserting a disc on the drive. I'll try
> > > > switching to AHCI on BIOS and see if it works fine.
> > > 
> > > And that message isn't generated in .37?
> > 
> > nope. dmesg is clean.
> 
> Hm. I'd still lean towards blaming something in the ata layer - I can't 
> see any way that dell-wmi could be directly involved, and it's primarily 
> just a mechanism for the firmware to report events to the OS.

ok, should we add more people to Cc then ?

-- 
balbi
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