Re: 2.6.8.1-mm3

Mikael Pettersson
2004-08-21T17:15:47Z

On 21 Aug 2004 12:02:24 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 10:43, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:19:19 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-mm3/
> > ...
> > > bk-scsi.patch
> >
> > This one is broken. It causes the kernel to emit a bogus
> > "program $PROG is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO"
> > message whenever user-space open(2)s a SCSI block device, even
> > though user-space never did any ioctl() on it.
>
> A simple open of /dev/sda from userland doesn't exhibit this behaviour
> for me. What sort of device is this? And what is the program?

It happens on my USB flash memory stick, which uses USB_STORAGE and BLK_DEV_SD.
A simple open(2) is enough to trigger the message. I'm about to try -mm3 on a
different machine which has a "true" SCSI controller/disk combo. (I should
have checked that first, sorry.)

/Mikael