A couple of things:

First, a kerneloops update was issued last night (see bug 471137) that
effectively neuters kerneloops by default for karmic, so you should stop
seeing these once you apply the update. (It can be re-enabled by editing
/etc/default/kerneloops)

What kerneloops is doing is monitoring the kernel log looking for output
that looks like a kernel oops (hence the name) or was generated by a
BUG_ON() or WARN_ON() call. I haven't looked at what typical WARN_ON()s
are to verify that they are generally safe to ignore. In the case of the
thinkpad_acpi issue in bug 430361, it's a false positive in that the
reported message starts with "Warning" which is what kerneloops triggers
on to look for an invocation of WARN_ON(). The thinkpad_acpi kernel code
that emits it should either be fixed to do a proper WARN_ON() if it's
warrented or the string should be changed to "Alert" or something
similar.

Thanks!

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Kernel oops dialog is inconsistent with kerneloops semantics
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346303
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