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SubjectRe: ide-cd problems
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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