When using the ata_piix driver and the "quiet" kernel option the old ide layer thinks that's ok to make some noise: ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free. ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe ide1: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free. ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe This is disturbing, for the unsuspecting end-user who thinks there might be a problem.
Created attachment 137020 [details] trivial patch replacing KERN_ERR with KERN_INFO
In some cases there -is- a problem. I'm going to close this as WONTFIX, but if you want to suggest it to the linux-kernel mailing list and see if there are ideas there for a better solution please do so. (or if you have any other suggestions on wording the message more clearly re-open the bug and let me know)