Bug 167403 - Kernel spams syslog with w1_driver messages
Summary: Kernel spams syslog with w1_driver messages
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 4
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-02 12:27 UTC by Steve Parker
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-09-30 04:52:57 UTC
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Description Steve Parker 2005-09-02 12:27:52 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Fedora/1.7.10-1.5.1

Description of problem:
After upgrading to kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4, I now see the following messages in my syslog:

Driver for 1-wire Dallas network protocol.
matrox_w1 0000:01:00.0: Matrox G400 GPIO transport layer for 1-wire.
w1_driver w1_bus_master1: No devices present on the wire.
w1_driver w1_bus_master1: No devices present on the wire.
w1_driver w1_bus_master1: No devices present on the wire.
....

Series of the 'w1_driver' messages continue to appear at regular intervals (every minute or so).  To stop them, I can 'rmmod matrox_w1' (as some initial research indicated) and then I see a few messages as below:

Aug 31 19:28:34 localhost kernel: Waiting for w1_bus_master1 to become free: refcnt=2.
Aug 31 19:28:35 localhost kernel: Waiting for w1_bus_master1 to become free: refcnt=1.
Aug 31 19:28:43 localhost last message repeated 8 times


And then they do indeed stop.  I've heard that this module is loaded automatically when a Matrox card is detected (I have a G450).  The question is why and why it generates so many syslog messages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reboot
2. Watch the syslog
  

Actual Results:  Syslog was spammed every minutes by the above messages.

Expected Results:  The messages should not appear (and, arguably as I don't know it's function, the matrox_w1 module should not be loaded).

Additional info:

Comment 1 Steve Parker 2005-09-27 23:43:20 UTC
This is still a problem in 2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 but I've simply disabled the
matrox_w1 module in /etc/modprobe.conf for now.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2005-09-30 03:12:19 UTC
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kernel-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.


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