From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/8.5 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Description of problem: dmesg is filled with this message: "w83781d 1-0290: Starting device update". This constant stream of messages is caused by the W83781D hardware sensor driver and is a result of CONFIG_HWMON_DEBUG_CHIP being enabled in the current FC4 kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 kernel 2.Load W83781D device driver 3.Run any application that monitors system health (e.g. gkrellm) 4.Run dmesg to show it is filled with the debug message Actual Results: running dmesg shows only repeated entried of this debug message, pushing out all other information. Expected Results: Massive output of driver debug information should not be enabled by default. Additional info: Please do not enable CONFIG_HWMON_DEBUG_CHIP in future kernel releases.
fixed in cvs, will be in next errata.
2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 has been released as an update for FC4. Please retest with this update, as a large amount of code has been changed in this release, which may have fixed your problem. Thank you.