From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269015AbUHMHWw (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 03:22:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269019AbUHMHWw (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 03:22:52 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:48792 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269015AbUHMHWv (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 03:22:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:22:50 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Jens Axboe Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: SG_IO and security Message-ID: <20040813072250.GT12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <1092313030.21978.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1092341803.22458.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040813065902.GB2321@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040813065902.GB2321@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 08:59:03AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > While that does make sense, it would be more code to fold them together > than what is currently there. SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND is really > horrible, the person inventing that API should be subject to daily > public ridicule. Introduced in 0.96a, between Apr 9 1992 and Apr 24 1992; part of initial SCSI merge, so probably existed earlier than that (ultrastor claims to be 1991, aha1542 appears to have started in January 1992). Drew Eckhardt, most likely...