From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] get the kernel to warn about deprecated SCSI ioctls Date: 19 Aug 2004 18:27:21 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1092954443.2025.1564.camel@mulgrave> References: <1092932342.2378.430.camel@mulgrave> <41252740.50401@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat16.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.48]:26250 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267474AbUHSW1f (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:27:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <41252740.50401@torque.net> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Douglas Gilbert Cc: SCSI Mailing List 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