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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 19:48:52 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.18-rc3
On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 7:39 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I'd rather add a deprecation warning to the whole "read/write
> to /dev/sg" itself
In the meantime, I've pulled this, but do wonder why we actually allow
that crazy read/write that doesn't even work for any other models (ie
I guarantee you that cdrom writers etc don't use that interface,
because SG_IO is the only thing that works on most hardware).
Linus
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