Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19, return of taskfile

Alexander Viro
2002-03-11T19:39:18Z

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Currently your taskfile access is hardcoded in tables in your ide patches and this is
> >
> > inflexible (e.g. cannot support future commands, unknown at the time of your writing)
> > !
>
> It stops things like disk level DRM nicely too

Umm... By what magic? The entire interface _is_ root-only, isn't it?
And root can do a lot of fun stuff, starting with editing the kernel
image...