From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758765AbYC1TOx (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:14:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758653AbYC1TOi (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:14:38 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1983 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757818AbYC1TOh (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:14:37 -0400 Message-ID: <47ED439C.9030400@rtr.ca> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:14:36 -0400 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls References: <20080208004421.17746.32557.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20080208004606.17746.90799.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <47EBDBAA.2020308@ru.mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <47EBDBAA.2020308@ru.mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Cheers