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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get the kernel to warn about deprecated SCSI ioctls
Date: 19 Aug 2004 18:27:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092954443.2025.1564.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41252740.50401@torque.net>

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 18:18, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> [Wearing my smartmontools maintainer hat] such a change is going
> to cause a lot of noise in the log from the smartd daemon.
> The code to use SG_IO ioctl in smartmontools is in CVS but
> won't be released for a month or so.
> 
> If they are not going to be dropped in the lk 2.6 series
> why not wait until the lk 2.7 development starts (or late
> lk 2.6 series)?

The current issue is that some of them have no compat code, so they
don't actually work 32 on 64.

If the noise becomes unbearable, we can rate limit it, but I'd like to
get the message out.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-19 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-19 16:19 [PATCH] get the kernel to warn about deprecated SCSI ioctls James Bottomley
2004-08-19 16:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-19 21:06   ` James Bottomley
2004-08-19 16:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-19 16:28   ` James Bottomley
2004-08-19 16:41     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-19 22:18 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-08-19 22:27   ` James Bottomley [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-19 17:06 Pat LaVarre

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