From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER, SCAN]_HWIF ioctls
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:10:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803291710.54843.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47ED439C.9030400@rtr.ca>
On Friday 28 March 2008, Mark Lord wrote:
> Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >
> >> hdparm explicitely marks HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls as DANGEROUS
> >> and given the number of bugs we can assume that there are no real users:
> ..
>
> There is the odd user of these, actually.
>
> But the most recent to email me (a few weeks ago),
> reported that the SCAN function was no longer working on his kernel.
>
> I'll remove the -R and -U flags completely from hdparm-8.7.
This will be quite helpful, thanks!
Bart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-29 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 0:44 [PATCH 00/18] ide: warm-plug support for IDE devices and other goodies Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:44 ` [PATCH 01/18] ide-generic: set hwif->chipset Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:44 ` [PATCH 02/18] ide: fix ide_find_port() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 17:23 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-08 0:44 ` [PATCH 03/18] ide: use ide_find_port() instead of ide_deprecated_find_port() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:44 ` [PATCH 04/18] ide-acpi: add missing drive->acpidata zeroing Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:44 ` [PATCH 05/18] ide: factor out cable detection from ide_init_port() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 17:18 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-08 0:45 ` [PATCH 06/18] ide: factor out code unregistering devices from ide_unregister() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-09 18:07 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-08 0:45 ` [PATCH 07/18] ide: factor out devices init from ide_init_port_data() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-09 18:10 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-08 0:45 ` [PATCH 08/18] ide: move ide_port_setup_devices() call to ide_device_add_all() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 17:20 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-08 0:45 ` [PATCH 09/18] ide: rework PowerMac media-bay support Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-13 7:29 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-02-13 12:26 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:45 ` [PATCH 10/18] ide: add warm-plug support for IDE devices Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:45 ` [PATCH 11/18] ide-generic: add ide_generic class and attribute for adding new interfaces Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:45 ` [PATCH 12/18] ide: remove needless CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD hack from init_hwif() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:45 ` [PATCH 13/18] ide: remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE config option Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:45 ` [PATCH 14/18] ide: remove obsoleted "idex=base[, ctl[, irq]]" kernel parameters Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:46 ` [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER, SCAN]_HWIF ioctls Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-27 17:38 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-28 19:14 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-29 16:10 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2008-03-29 16:03 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:46 ` [PATCH 16/18] ide: remove ->hold field from ide_hwif_t Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:46 ` [PATCH 17/18] ide: remove init_hwif_default() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 0:46 ` [PATCH 18/18] ide: remove ide_init_hwif_ports() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-08 8:40 ` [PATCH 00/18] ide: warm-plug support for IDE devices and other goodies Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-12 11:49 ` Gabriel Paubert
2008-02-12 12:30 ` Gabriel Paubert
2008-02-13 10:08 ` Gabriel Paubert
2008-02-12 20:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-12 21:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-12 21:41 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-12 22:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-12 21:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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