Re: 2.6.10-mm1

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:32:31AM -0600, Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com wrote:
> After booting with 2.6.10-mm1, I get the following message on the serial
> console (last message seen):
> 
> PCI: 0000:00:0b.0 has unsupported PM cap regs version (1)
> 
> For reference, lspci shows that device is
> 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
> 
> I notice there is a relatively recent patch to add this message.
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/263974
> 
> However, my .config includes
> 
> #
> # Power management options (ACPI, APM)
> #
> # CONFIG_PM is not set
> 
> which should disable all power management related processing.
> 
> [1] Should the code generating the warning be active without CONFIG_PM
> being set?
> 
> [2] Can you explain why the message is generated (why not silently ignore
> the older hardware) or is there something in an init script (I am using
> Fedora Core 2) that [incorrectly] assumes power management is available to
> cause the message to be printed?

David, any ideas?  Should I just revert this change for now?

thanks,

greg k-h