Re: sym53c8xx driver

From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer (mchouque@cs.stevens-tech.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 12:19:30 EST


        Hi !

These messages are just debug messages, if you don't want them just add the
parameter debug:0 to the sym53c8xx driver (i think it is the correct syntax
but you probably have to check it first).

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:13:26AM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> When will the version 1.7.1 of the sym53c8xx driver be included
> in the kernel? The current version (1.6b or so in 2.4.0testX kernels)
> likes to fill /var/log/messages (and the console) with lines like this:
>
> sym53c875J-0-<2,0>: sync msgout: 1-3-1-c-10.
> sym53c875J-0-<2,0>: sync msg in: 1-3-1-c-8.
> sym53c875J-0-<2,0>: sync: per=12 scntl3=0x90 scntl4=0x0 ofs=8 fak=0 chg=0.
>
> and
>
> sym53c875J-0-<3,0>: sync msgout: 1-3-1-c-10.
> sym53c875J-0-<3,0>: sync msg in: 1-3-1-19-f.
> sym53c875J-0-<3,0>: sync: per=25 scntl3=0x30 scntl4=0x0 ofs=15 fak=0
> chg=0.
>
> even when there was no CD in the drives. These messages started after
> boot when kudzu (the RedHat hardware discovery tool) loaded the sym53c8xx
> module and they came at a so very fast rate that the logging made the
> machine very slow.
>
> I tried 2.4.0test6-pre1 (+ the one liner kmod fix) with sym53c8xx-1.7.1
> and the messages disappeared.
>
> Regards,
> Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor@mail.externet.hu>
>
>
>
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