Re: v3.14-rc1+: new error: "nsc-ircc, Wrong chip version ff"

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Mar 17 2014 - 09:09:21 EST


On Monday, March 17, 2014 01:33:33 PM Paul Bolle wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki schreef op ma 17-03-2014 om 01:02 [+0100]:
> > On Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:41:35 PM Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > 2) What should I do to make that error go away?
> >
> > This is not an error, but a message whose log level is too high. It basically
> > means "I found something, but I don't like it, so I'm not going to handle it."
>
> I see. It's actually quite old and is mentioned rather often on the web.
> I must have seen if before, when I actually used IrDA, but that's a few
> years ago now.

I see.

> > The messages come from nsc_ircc_setup(), which is called from nsc_ircc_open(),
> > which in turn is called by nsc_ircc_init(), which is a module intialization
> > function of the nsc-ircc module.
> >
> > I *guess* what happens is that the PNP layer creates a PNP device object
> > for something it didn't create an object for previously, so I wonder if the
> > patch below makes those messages go away?
>
> No, they're still there (with this patch applied on top of v3.14-rc7).

Beats me then.

I'm sure it can be tracked down, but I'm not sure it's worth spending the time.

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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