Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.18-rc3

Linus Torvalds
2018-07-07T02:49:21Z

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 7:39 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I'd rather add a deprecation warning to the whole "read/write
> to /dev/sg" itself

In the meantime, I've pulled this, but do wonder why we actually allow
that crazy read/write that doesn't even work for any other models (ie
I guarantee you that cdrom writers etc don't use that interface,
because SG_IO is the only thing that works on most hardware).

Linus