Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:44:18 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7 |
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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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