Comment 3 for bug 102270

I realize this is an old thread, but I've just got this too, for no discernable reason.

On a macbook core (one) duo I'm getting:

tim@tim-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep applesmc
[ 19.004000] applesmc: Apple MacBook detected:
[ 19.004000] applesmc: - Model with accelerometer
[ 19.004000] applesmc: - Model without light sensors and backlight
[ 19.004000] applesmc: - Model with 7 temperature sensors
[ 19.060000] applesmc: device successfully initialized (0xe0, 0x00).
[ 19.060000] applesmc: device successfully initialized.
[ 19.060000] applesmc: 1 fans found.
[ 19.060000] input: applesmc as /class/input/input6
[ 19.060000] applesmc: driver successfully loaded.
[ 1657.180000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[ 5998.288000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[ 6371.756000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[ 8654.648000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[10701.920000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[15024.424000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[15779.688000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[16165.128000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[19650.016000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[20620.448000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[20727.128000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[25963.096000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[28137.696000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18
[28917.708000] applesmc: wait status failed: c != 18

(Note, 18 not 8). Not sure what this means, and nothing appears to be particularly wrong symptomwise... Its just errors. And at the top it seems to initialise with no problems at all. Does anyone know what the wait status means?

uname -a gives:

Linux tim-laptop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux