Re: [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-29T15:56:29Z

On Friday 28 March 2008, Mark Lord wrote:
> Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >
> >> hdparm explicitely marks HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls as DANGEROUS
> >> and given the number of bugs we can assume that there are no real users:
> ..
>
> There is the odd user of these, actually.
>
> But the most recent to email me (a few weeks ago),
> reported that the SCAN function was no longer working on his kernel.
>
> I'll remove the -R and -U flags completely from hdparm-8.7.

This will be quite helpful, thanks!

Bart