From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:14:36 -0400 Message-ID: <47ED439C.9030400@rtr.ca> References: <20080208004421.17746.32557.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20080208004606.17746.90799.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <47EBDBAA.2020308@ru.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1983 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757818AbYC1TOh (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:14:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47EBDBAA.2020308@ru.mvista.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> hdparm explicitely marks HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls as DANGEROUS >> and given the number of bugs we can assume that there are no real users: .. There is the odd user of these, actually. But the most recent to email me (a few weeks ago), reported that the SCAN function was no longer working on his kernel. I'll remove the -R and -U flags completely from hdparm-8.7. Cheers From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.rtr.ca (rtr.ca [76.10.145.34]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271A6DE816 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:50:57 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <47ED439C.9030400@rtr.ca> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:14:36 -0400 From: Mark Lord MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER, SCAN]_HWIF ioctls References: <20080208004421.17746.32557.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20080208004606.17746.90799.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <47EBDBAA.2020308@ru.mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <47EBDBAA.2020308@ru.mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> hdparm explicitely marks HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls as DANGEROUS >> and given the number of bugs we can assume that there are no real users: .. There is the odd user of these, actually. But the most recent to email me (a few weeks ago), reported that the SCAN function was no longer working on his kernel. I'll remove the -R and -U flags completely from hdparm-8.7. Cheers