Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: switch ide-proc to use the ide_key functionality | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:22:29 +0200 |
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On Monday 16 August 2004 17:30, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:24:09PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > This patch removes write access to /proc/ide/hd?/driver without even > > mentioning this - IMHO we should deprecate it first. Such changes should > > be described (with rationale for them) at least in the changelog > > (or even better in Documentation/ide.txt). > > I thought we discussed this earlier - its essentially unfixable. You can > either have trivial /proc crashes, deadlocks on writing this file or lose > the feature (which nobody on the planet even knew about).
I used this 'feature' few times and never experienced crash or deadlock but they are possible of course.
> If you've got any ideas how to fix it then let me know. > > Agreed about adding it to Documentation/ide.txt
I fully agreed on the change but not the way in which it's done. ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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