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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, T.Maguin@web.de,
	axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: [patch 23/28] scsi cd: VariRec, GigaRec and PowerRec as user
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 08:45:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060308154532.GJ7301@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141830726.3194.8.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:12:06AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 00:14 -0800, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> > From: Thomas Maguin <T.Maguin@web.de>
> 
> > This patch allows normal users to eectute some Plextor drives
> > commands:
> > 
> > - Hide CD-R
> > - SingleSession
> > - SpeedRead
> > - PowerRec
> > - VariRec
> > - GigaRec
> > 
> 
> This one just isn't safe.  We can't add vendor specific commands to the
> permissions table because they mean different things to different
> vendors ... get mode on one could be halt and catch fire on another, so
> the whole concept of safety via command verification is lost.

Thanks for NAKing this one again, James.  I'm a bit disappointed akpm
picked it up given that I explained how unsafe it was when it was posted:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=113976322621230&w=2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-08 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200603080816.k288GSQO002236@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-03-08 15:12 ` [patch 23/28] scsi cd: VariRec, GigaRec and PowerRec as user James Bottomley
2006-03-08 15:15   ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-08 15:45   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-03-08 17:30     ` Jeff Garzik

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