[arch-general] couple of log messages from kernel 3.2.2

[Tim Stella]

On 01/30/12 at 01:22pm, Genes MailLists wrote:
> 
>  I noticed a couple of messages booting the new 3.2.2 kernel:
> 
> (I) watchdog:
> ---------------------
> 
> [287247.568009] NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
> [287248.814530] watchdog: INTCAMT: cannot register miscdev on minor=130
> (err=-16).
> [287248.814536] watchdog: error registering /dev/watchdog (err=-16).
> [287248.814540] mei: unable to register watchdog device.
> 
> 
> (I) acpi:
> ---------------------
> 
> [ 4749.406097] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or keyboard
> event received
> [ 4749.406108] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6040
> [ 4749.406114] thinkpad_acpi: please report the conditions when this
> event happened to ibm-acpi-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> [ 4749.406834] thinkpad_acpi: EC reports that Thermal Table has changed
> 
> 
>  suggestions on what I can do to track these down anymore ... or if it
> could be hard/firm ware issue on this lenovo W520 laptop.
> 
>  thanks.
> 
> g

I'm getting the watchdog errors as well, on a T520 laptop, was curious of the
solution too, but haven't had time to look into it... maybe something to do with
Thinkpads?

Tim Stella