Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:01:45 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: ide-cd problems |
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On Tue, Aug 03 2004, Zinx Verituse wrote: > > > We'd end up with a list of allowed commands for all sorts of operations > > > that don't threaten the machine while blocking vendor specific wonders > > > and also cases where users can do stuff like firmware erase. > > > > Sorry, I think this model is totally bogus and I'd absolutely refuse to > > merge any such beast into the block layer sg code. > > > > Well, would something like this patch be acceptable? It just makes > SG_IO require write access to the device (cdrecord and cdrdao both > open it this way already, so users shouldn't have a problem with it). > I probably forgot some stuff, etc. I'm not terribly familiar with the > code in question.
Absolutely not. I've already outlined why in my previous mails I don't want to see anything like this, and this patch is even worse than filtering. Additionally, you risk breaking existing programs.
-- Jens Axboe
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