From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267251AbUHMTXH (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:23:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266916AbUHMTXH (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:23:07 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:50396 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267264AbUHMTSu (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:18:50 -0400 Message-ID: <411D140C.4040100@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:18:36 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: SG_IO and security References: <1092313030.21978.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1092341803.22458.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040813065902.GB2321@suse.de> <1092383006.2813.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040813074654.GA2663@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20040813074654.GA2663@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13 2004, Arjan van de Ven 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. >> >>sounds like deprecation of this interface should start (I suspect this > > > Very much so, it should have been deprecated for the last 5 years :) > > >>one will need ample notice of that so the sooner we do .... ) > > > I have no idea how many apps use this ioctl, does anyone have a rough > list? Add a rate-limited "this feature is deprecated" feature and find out... Jeff