Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls | Date | Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:10:54 +0100 |
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On Friday 28 March 2008, Mark Lord wrote: > Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > >> hdparm explicitely marks HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls as DANGEROUS > >> and given the number of bugs we can assume that there are no real users: > .. > > There is the odd user of these, actually. > > But the most recent to email me (a few weeks ago), > reported that the SCAN function was no longer working on his kernel. > > I'll remove the -R and -U flags completely from hdparm-8.7.
This will be quite helpful, thanks!
Bart
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