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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition
Il 04/05/2012 15:06, Mark Lord ha scritto:
>> > I said which ioctls, not which options. I.e. cut-and-paste from dmesg.
> Here are some:

Thanks!

> messages.1:Apr 28 14:08:09 zbox5 kernel: [ 268.800536] hdparm: sending ioctl 330 to a partition!
> messages.1:Apr 28 14:08:09 zbox5 kernel: [ 268.800547] hdparm: sending ioctl 330 to a partition!
> messages.1:Apr 28 14:08:57 zbox5 kernel: [ 316.413944] hdparm: sending ioctl 330 to a partition!
> messages.1:Apr 28 14:08:57 zbox5 kernel: [ 316.413951] hdparm: sending ioctl 330 to a partition!
> messages.1:Apr 28 14:20:10 zbox5 kernel: [ 989.525085] hdparm: sending ioctl 330 to a partition!
> messages.1:Apr 28 14:20:10 zbox5 kernel: [ 989.525093] hdparm: sending ioctl 330 to a partition!
>
> The in <linux/hdreg.h> say this about 330:
>
> ...
> /* 0x330 is reserved - used to be HDIO_GETGEO_BIG */
> ...
>
> So it's HDIO_GETGEO_BIG, which doesn't exist in newer kernels.
> I wonder when that got removed? Minor userspace breakage there.
>
> hdparm issues it first as a backward-compatibility thing,
> before falling back to the even-more obsolete HDIO_GETGEO,
> which curiously enough is still in modern kernels.

Ok, so hdparm is not broken. My patch (which left the warning only for
SG_IO, and failed all other ioctls) would have worked, too.

Paolo


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