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

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-09-25, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>> 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?

Not even close --- I know I did kernel upgrades on both machines last
week!

> The bit in [] must refer to something else I think: on this box for
> instance
>
>  $ uptime
>  19:03:43 up 3 days, 20:44,  3 users,  load average: 0.34, 0.37, 0.31
>
> Recent entry in my /var/log/kern.log  :
> Sep 25 16:14:32 prospero kernel: [17503267.704000] 
>
> Which also works out to 202 days and change :-) Doesn't quite fit,
> somehow ... !

I agree, although they do come out in numerical order:

$ grep -o 'kernel: \[.*\]' /var/log/syslog
kernel: [17588106.348000]
kernel: [17588109.712000]
kernel: [17589459.140000]
kernel: [17591380.564000]
kernel: [17593301.848000]
kernel: [17595223.252000]
kernel: [17596514.932000]
kernel: [17596518.288000]
kernel: [17597144.584000]