Re: 2.6.8.1-mm3

James Bottomley
2004-08-21T16:02:50Z

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?

James