linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] 8a3e33cf92c7 "ata: ahci: find eSATA ports and flag them as removable" changes userspace behavior

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Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:20:00 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc:	Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@...il.com>,
	Linux-IDE <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 8a3e33cf92c7 "ata: ahci: find eSATA ports and flag
 them as removable" changes userspace behavior

Hello, Laura.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:37:09AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> The mounting comes from udisks. udisks will automount anything marked as removable
> unless explicitly forbidden. You can argue whether or not this is good design but
> it's still a change in behavior from what udisks was relying on to decide
> whether or not to automount. lspci from the users hardware:
> 
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset 6-Port SATA
> AHCI Controller (rev 06)

It is a behavior change but difficult to characterize as a breakage,
given that we do want userland to treat ports explicitly marked as
external to be treated as such.  That said, eSATA being mostly a
fringe thing, we can go "whatever" and revert it.

Let's hope it's a false positive that the patch can fix.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun