Re: Sense fetching [Was: cdrtools /devel ...]

Brandon Gooch wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Alexander Motin <mav_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Brandon Gooch wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Alexander Motin <mav_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> Now uncommitted pass_autosence.patch and possibly cdrtools.patch.
>>> OK. Patched kernel and cdrtools has resulted in a working cdrecord
>>> (burned an ISO successfully) and an endless stream of:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): Requesting SCSI sense data
>>> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): SCSI status error
>>> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): Requesting SCSI sense data
>>> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): SCSI status error
>>> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): Requesting SCSI sense data
>>> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): SCSI status error
>>> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): Requesting SCSI sense data
>>> (pass0:ata0:0:0:0): SCSI status error
>>> ...
>> I think it can be hald probing for media insertion. Probably we should
>> slightly reduce error logging verbosity. May be somehow make to not log
>> errors on requests submitted from user-level via pass driver.
>>
>>> But most important part: It works, and it burned very quickly! The CD
>>> was created, and fully functional (I booted the Fedora image and
>>> completed an installation).
>> Nice!
> 
> What are your thoughts on committing this (or something like it)?
> Should I just keep a local patch set for the semi-long-term? Do you
> have something else in the works?

I wanted to do something with these logs first, as they are hardly
acceptable, but was distracted by different project. Unless somebody
take it, I'll be back to it later.

-- 
Alexander Motin