kern/114667: [umass] UMASS device error log problem

[David Southwell]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 15:17:06 M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200708081502.14940.david at vizion2000.net>
>
>             David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net> writes:
> : On Wednesday 08 August 2007 10:54:14 Remko Lodder wrote:
> : > On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:20:06PM +0000, David Southwell wrote:
> : > > The following reply was made to PR kern/114667; it has been noted by
> : > > GNATS.
> : > >
> : > > From: David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net>
> : > > To: bug-followup at freebsd.org,
> : > >  david at vizion2000.net
> : > > Cc:
> : > > Subject: Re: kern/114667: [umass] UMASS device error log problem
> : > > Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:27:59 -0700
> : > >
> : > >  Hi
> : > >
> : > >  Just wondered if anyone might have the time to look at this -- it
> : > > really is a nuisance.
> : > >
> : > >  Thanks
> : >
> : > Hello David,
> : >
> : > I just checked the PR itself and I personally do not think this is
> : > something we should handle though, the messages get in the logfile
> : > because you ask for information on a 'heavily removable' device, it
> : > mostly has multiple ports and the device has no knowledge to see what
> : > 'port' is being used [if at all used].
> : >
> : > That said; this is my private opinion, others might ofcourse disagree
> : > with me, please feel free to continue to discuss this, but in addittion
> : > I also think this is not worth a PR ticket.
> : >
> : > Cheers
> : > remko
> :
> : Sorry but I and a number of others who have complained about the same
> : problem do agree it is worth a PR. basically we seem to have an
> : uncontrollable worthless message generator.
> :
> : If you can tell me how to stop the messages for this device it would make
> : a PR unnecessary but as things stand none seems to be able to answer the
> : question "How do we stop the messages?"
>
> The messages are from CAM.  It likes to get extremely verbose when it
> can't do something.  There's currently no way to 'fix' this short of
> hacking the source.
>
> Warner

That is precisely why I have put in a PR. CAM is pretty ancient and IMHO it is 
time it was revisited to get rid of this tiresome behaviour. Unfortunatley I 
do not have the capability to do it myself. In this case "hacking the source" 
iand "bug fixing" are synonyms.

It needs fixing - and therefore a PR is IMHO  most appropriate.

David