The following messages[1] drop to /var/log/messages every 30 seconds resulting in hundred-MBs. The mouse in question is the following one and works perfectly fine: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c510 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse These annoying messages were a bit different[2] before I commented out everything (including InputDevice section for the mouse) except Device section for graphics card and let the hald take care of the rest (xorg1.5 upgrade). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. attach the mouse and # tail -f /var/log/messages Actual Results: See: attachment Expected Results: Stop bloating the logs. When googling the messages[2] I was getting before commenting out the mouse section, I found this[3] post with similar usb-storage messages; though the device in question there is an external hard drive. I don't know if this is another kernel bug or something that can be dismissed since my mouse is working fine. Either way I would at least like to suppress these messages from getting into the logs. [3] http://kerneltrap.org/node/3844
Created attachment 211628 [details] /var/log/message messages when mouse is attached and the repeating messages ref.ed as [1] and [2]
Created attachment 212230 [details] Forgotten dmesg
Today, I updated to 2.6.31-gentoo-r6. I also revised my .config and set USB_DEBUG and USE_SUSPEND to [n] hoping that would reduce the flood. On next boot, I noticed that the messages I mention on my previous post as [1] were indeed reduced to the following lines: Dec 6 15:58:48 elsewhere b-csr: listening on 'Cordless Click Mouse': [4195]: 15:58:48.029 [D] addon-usb-csr.c:212: ** Check batteries Dec 6 15:58:48 elsewhere b-csr: listening on 'Cordless Click Mouse': [4195]: 15:58:48.030 [D] addon-usb-csr.c:125: CSR device: [/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c510_noserial] Dec 6 15:58:48 elsewhere b-csr: listening on 'Cordless Click Mouse': [4195]: 15:58:48.030 [D] addon-usb-csr.c:129: Is dual: 0 Dec 6 15:58:48 elsewhere b-csr: listening on 'Cordless Click Mouse': [4195]: 15:58:48.030 [D] addon-usb-csr.c:186: Looking for: [001][006] Dec 6 15:58:48 elsewhere b-csr: listening on 'Cordless Click Mouse': [4195]: 15:58:48.030 [D] addon-usb-csr.c:202: Matched device: [001][006][046D:C510] Dec 6 15:58:48 elsewhere b-csr: listening on 'Cordless Click Mouse': [4195]: 15:58:48.031 [D] addon-usb-csr.c:151: Charge level: 5->5 I don't understand why the thing called csr feels like it has to check the battery level of my usb mouse every 30 seconds and bloat the /var/log/messages. Are these messages a sign of something I should be worried about or will someone just point me a way to suppress and ignore these messages? Thanks in advance! Fatih
Make sure USB_STORAGE_DEBUG is not set in kernel config and disable hald verbosity in /etc/conf.d/hald file as follows HALD_VERBOSE="no" peace...
