From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: sg driver and Fedora Core 2 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:36:42 +0200 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040529163641.GG31365@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <40B74725.90403@torque.net> <20040528172535.GD13961@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1085846125.2101.29.camel@mulgrave> <20040529155744.GA32621@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1085846840.2103.47.camel@mulgrave> <20040529162912.GA5922@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:60626 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262574AbUE2Qgt (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 12:36:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040529162912.GA5922@devserv.devel.redhat.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: James Bottomley , Douglas Gilbert , SCSI Mailing List --0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:29:12PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > > Fedora bugzilla has demonstrated it *doesn't* work. yes cdrecord broke due to a bug in cdrecord and a somewhat discutable behavior difference between SG_IO and /dev/sg when it comes to oversized IO (which cdrecord issues as a result of it's own bug) > There is a long list > of broken third party apps such as drive firmware tools many of which will > never include source code. The whole point of sg is arbitary management of > devices. *AND SG_IO IS THAT*. You seem to ignore that consistently. What changed is that you don't need top open some OTHER device to send arbitrary commands to /dev/sda, but you can open /dev/sda directly to send those commands, with the same ioctl. THAT changed. Don't tell me that very long list of third party apps ALL doesn't take a device as argument.... undoubtedly several don't but... "long list"... --0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAuLwZxULwo51rQBIRAnw8AJ4wYb/g3cx9EHsrjTB2ZFabAeCy0gCfR4H0 WCbHgbN+Jfl91OeOUp9+HJs= =XO7d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3--