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Message-Id: <1202486247.3102.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:57:27 -0600
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_error: Fix language abuse.
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 15:32 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> The word "illegal" has a precise dictionary meaning of "prohibited by
> law". The error messages are therefore incorrect as so far nobody has
> made SCSI violations a criminal offence.
Um, I'm really reluctant to do this without an incredibly good reason.
Illegal is a defined term under the SCSI standards, and the messages you
are changing actually appear with the word Illegal in the actual
ASC/ASCQ definition. If I accept this patch, you'll no longer be able
to look the messages up in the relevant standard:
http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/spc3/spc3r23.pdf
By a simple text search.
I don't think the pedantry is worth the confusion ...
James
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