What does "ibm_acpi: ec object not found" mean?

[James Gray]

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On 25/09/2006, at 3:36 AM, Adam Funk wrote:

> According to my logcheck output, every Sunday morning around 07:38 to
> 07:40 the following message appears in syslog on two Ubuntu machines
> with different hardware (one is a Pentium dual-core, the other is an
> Athlon single-core):
>
>   kernel: [17516314.136000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
>
> (The numbers in [] vary.)

The bit in the [] is a time stamp since the kernel started.  Unless I  
screwed the calculation, looks like your system has been up for over  
202 days, 17 hours, 38 minutes and 34 seconds (give or take a  
little) ... right?

> What does this mean?  Should I just keep ignoring it?

Just means that something asked for or went looking for the ACPI "ec"  
object but your BIOS doesn't implement it.  It's a benign warning but  
tracking it down could be tricky and I have nfi what the "ec" object  
is supposed to do (google is your friend).  Unless you are having  
problems with ACPI events, I'd just ignore it :)

Cheers,

James


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