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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition
Il 03/05/2012 14:40, Mark Lord ha scritto:
>> >
>> > Breaking "hdparm --write-sector /dev/sda1"? I call it a security fix.
> No, that would plain stupid on both our parts. :)
> The --write-sector flag is allowed only for non-partitions by hdparm itself.

Excuse my laziness--how does it check? Most programs I looked at check
at the shape of the file and some are even fooled by "ln -sf /dev/sda1
./sda".

> But other flags commonly used by distros at boot time
> seem to be triggering the current in-kernel noise.
> Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting
> for the noise message to get reverted.

That's exactly the behavior I hoped to get when I added the warnings.
Or maybe not. :) What are the messages? i.e. what ioctl do they
complain about?

Paolo


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