Re: [PATCH] get the kernel to warn about deprecated SCSI ioctls

James Bottomley
2004-08-19T22:27:35Z

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