[Paranoia] sg_write kernel logging flood

[R. Bernstein]

Does cd-paranoia from libcdio (http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio)
give the same problem as well? If not, there probably a way around
this.

Tobias Jakobi writes:
 > Hi there paranoia devs,
 > 
 > I was hoping to find here an answer to this problem:
 > I just updated my system to linux kernel 2.6.21 and also switched to the
 > new ATA layer. Now mplayer (which internally seems to use cdparanoia)
 > also needs the kernel sg module to get access to the optical drives (I
 > use mplayer for CDDA playback). I modprobed sg and could playback the
 > CDDAs, but as long as data is extracted from the drive the kernel log is
 > filled with:
 > 
 > sg_write: data in/out 16464/16464 bytes for SCSI command 0xbe--guessing
 > data in;
 >    program mplayer not setting count and/or reply_len properly
 > 
 > I found that this problem is not new:
 > http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/25/125901.html
 > 
 > Sadly it still exists, and even when usiny cdparanoia (standalone) it
 > fills the kernel log. Now I'm searching for a (non-hacky) patch to get
 > this working correctly. I could comment out the logging command from
 > sg.c, but that would be more a hack. Any idea how to fix this?
 > 
 > uname -a:
 > Linux voodoomaster 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 #1 Sat Jul 7 20:10:22 CEST 2007
 > x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
 > 
 > cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
 > (C) 2001 Monty <monty at xiph.org> and Xiphophorus
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Tobias
 > 
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