Firmware can report errors at any time, and not atypically during boot. 
However, these reports were being discarded until th rtasd comes up, which
occurs fairly late in the boot cycle.  As a result, firmware errors during
boot were being silently ignored.
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>