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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 09:47:21 +0200
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Il 02/05/2012 21:38, Mark Lord ha scritto:
>> >
>> > Indeed, RHEL doesn't have the warning at all and blocks all ioctls
>> > including SG_IO (and in the past six months nobody has complained that
>> > something stopped working for them).  Never said the patch is perfect...
> hdparm.
> 

Breaking "hdparm --write-sector /dev/sda1"?  I call it a security fix.

Paolo