From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@www.pagan.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SG_IO and security
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:18:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <411D140C.4040100@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040813074654.GA2663@suse.de>
Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
>>>While that does make sense, it would be more code to fold them together
>>>than what is currently there. SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND is really
>>>horrible, the person inventing that API should be subject to daily
>>>public ridicule.
>>
>>sounds like deprecation of this interface should start (I suspect this
>
>
> Very much so, it should have been deprecated for the last 5 years :)
>
>
>>one will need ample notice of that so the sooner we do .... )
>
>
> I have no idea how many apps use this ioctl, does anyone have a rough
> list?
Add a rate-limited "this feature is deprecated" feature and find out...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-13 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-12 12:17 SG_IO and security Alan Cox
2004-08-12 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12 16:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12 17:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12 17:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12 17:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12 19:22 ` Kai Makisara
2004-08-13 19:25 ` Peter Jones
2004-08-13 19:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-14 7:22 ` Kai Makisara
2004-08-14 15:33 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-16 22:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-16 22:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-12 17:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-12 17:35 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-12 18:29 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-12 18:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12 18:43 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-12 18:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-12 18:48 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-12 20:19 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12 20:16 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12 22:51 ` Eric Lammerts
2004-08-13 0:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-13 6:59 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-13 7:22 ` viro
2004-08-13 7:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-13 7:46 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-13 19:18 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-08-13 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-13 19:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-13 19:49 ` Florian Weimer
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