Re: [PATCH](memory hotplug) Repost remove useless message at boot time from 2.6.18-rc4.

From: Len Brown
Date: Thu Aug 10 2006 - 16:51:30 EST


On Thursday 10 August 2006 16:26, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>
> Yasunori Goto wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I would like to repost this patch to remove noisy useless message at boot
> > time from 2.6.18-rc4.
> > (I said "-mm doesn't shows this message in previous post", but it was wrong.
> > This messages are shown by -mm too.)
> >
> > -------------------------
> > This is to remove noisy useless message at boot time from 2.6.18-rc4.
> > The message is a ton of
> > "ACPI Exception (acpi_memory-0492): AE_ERROR, handle is no memory device"
> >
> >
> I'm seeing this on some of my ia64 boxes, however, I see
>
> ACPI Exception (acpi_memory-0491): AE_ERROR, handle is no memory device
> [20060707]
>
> What's interesting is that last little bit looks an awful lot like a
> date.... It's almost as if we were
> reading beyond the end of the ACPI table?

[20060707] is the version (yes, it is a date) of the ACPICA core.
The ACPI_EXCEPTION() macro appends it to the exception message.

-Len
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