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SubjectRe: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7


On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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> Linus, would it be acceptable to you to include an -optional- filter for
> ATA commands? There is definitely a segment of users that would like to
> firewall their devices, and I think (as crazy as it may sound) that
> notion is a valid one.

I'd rather have the rule that you can turn off this feature altogther: if
the command is so esoteric that it's not part of the regular commands we
can generate on our own, 99% of all people probably aren't even interested
in it.

If the command is useful on its own, and has a generic meaning (ie across
a large subset of users), then I think the kernel should support it
through a _real_ interface, not through some "pass user data though
inscathed" thing. Because that generic meaning probably exists even
outside ATA drives.

Linus

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