Bug#574797: Spurious libata message on boot

[Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@gmail.com>]

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Due to bug #574795 i was forced to add libata.ignore_hpa=1 on boot.
> > Now during the boot phase i see several of the following string
> > appearing asyncronously:
> >
> > options libata ignore_hpa=1
>
> Do you mean that this exact line is printed to the screen?  This is very
> strange!

Yes, boot log attached.
It is a generated by copy-paste with gpm, since these messages are not 
logged on the disk.
I count 6 "options libata ignore_hpa=1" string, but in the flash between 
grub and the switch to graphic mode due to KMS, i have seen about three 
other messages.

And i also see one of these when i do "ifup ppp0".
I have done some search on the network scripts but i haven't found who 
trigger that message.

Cesare.

options libata ignore_hpa=1
options libata ignore_hpa=1
options libata ignore_hpa=1
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...[    5.424913] ACPI: I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x1880-0x189f] conflicts with ACPI region SBUS [0x1880-0x188f]
done.
Setting preliminary keymap...done.
Setting parameters of disc:  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HM160HC_S12TJF0S982076.
Activating swap...done.
Checking root file system...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2
debian-root: clean, 192643/786432 files, 1199511/3144715 blocks
done.
Cleaning up ifupdown....
Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2
debian-home: clean, 32475/8200192 files, 12235772/32768583 blocks
done.
Mounting local filesystems...done.
Activating swapfile swap...done.
Cleaning up temporary files....
Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done.
Setting up resolvconf...done.
Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix....
Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix....
Setting up networking....
Setting kernel variables ... /etc/sysctl.conf... /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf...done.
Configuring network interfaces...options libata ignore_hpa=1
done.
Cleaning up temporary files....
Setting console screen modes.
Skipping font and keymap setup (handled by console-setup).
Setting up console font and keymap...done.
Setting up ALSA...done.
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Starting acpi_fakekey daemon...options libata ignore_hpa=1
done.
Checking battery state...done.
Loading cpufreq kernel modules...options libata ignore_hpa=1
done (acpi-cpufreq).
Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
Starting web server: apache2.
Starting ACPI services....
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...CPU0...done.
Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
Starting system message bus: dbus.
Starting freepops daemon: freepopsd.
Starting mouse interface server: gpm.
Starting NTP server: ntpd.
Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfix.
Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartd.
Setting sysfs variables....
Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
Starting bluetooth: bluetoothd rfcomm.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm.

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