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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER,
	SCAN]_HWIF ioctls
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:10:54 +0100
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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