Excessive multipath syslog messages "/lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1" with device-mapper-multipath on RHEL 6.1

Issue

• Running multipath -ll on a system with a failed/faulty path results in excessive error messages :

    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | sdae: emc prio: query command indicates error
    Aug 01 04:50:54 | sdao: emc prio: query command indicates error
    mpathj (3600601605f50220001593fc80677e011) dm-4 DGC,RAID 5
    size=36G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='1 emc' wp=rw
    |-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active
    | |- 2:0:0:8 sdae 65:224 failed faulty running
    | `- 1:0:1:8 sdu  65:64  active ready  running
    `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=0 status=enabled
      |- 1:0:0:8 sdk  8:160  active ready  running
      `- 2:0:1:8 sdao 66:128 failed faulty running