Temorarily disabling ACPI errors

[Jung-uk Kim]

On 05/04/2018 16:43, Don Whitteker wrote:
> I am trying to temporarily disable my ACPI error messages I am getting on
> my laptop. I've tried disabling ACPI (crashed right at boot), tried
> hw.acpi.osname="Windows 2015" based on documentation and output from
> 'acpidump -td | grep "Windows"'(no change), and even tried
> 'hint.acpi_thermal.0.disabled="1"' since the main issue are the thermal
> sensors. I know these issues need to be addressed and that I can't just
> sweep them under the rug. However I am getting spammed with 4 lines of
> errors every 3-5 seconds. This is making it near impossible to type out
> anything but short commands at the prompt. I can't even open a file in vi
> to try to edit before the spam covers the first 4 lines and makes it
> impossible to read or edit. I would love to tackle this problem and get
> ACPI working (if even only partially) but I can't do tanything with these
> constant  error messages.
> 
> Is there a way to pipe the error messages to /dev/null? I have done that
> using the find command and similar commands but I don't know how to when
> it's constantly coming from the system.

Are you using head?  If so, can you please try the attached patch?

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim
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