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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>,
	Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>,
	hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [patch 05/10] s390: add missing validation for dasd discipline specific ioctls
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:08:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060208140839.GA16366@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060208123709.GF1656@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:37:09PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> From: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>
> 
> Because of missing discipline validition dasd ioctls calls may not return
> when called on a device handled by a different discipline.
> (e.g calling ECKD specific BIODASDGATTR on an FBA device).
> This addresses one of the issues Christoph has with the dasd driver.

Nack.  the right way to do this is to have per-discipline ioctl methods,
even if we can't remove the dasd_ioctl_register interface yet due to
other disagreements.  Just resurect those parts of my patch.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-08 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-08 12:37 [patch 05/10] s390: add missing validation for dasd discipline specific ioctls Heiko Carstens
2006-02-08 14:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-08 16:56 Horst Hummel
2006-02-08 17:05 ` Christoph Hellwig

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