linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]

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Message-Id: <200803291710.54843.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:10:54 +0100
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
Cc:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls

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
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