Re: [PATCH 15/18] ide: remove broken/dangerous HDIO_[UNREGISTER, SCAN]_HWIF ioctls

On Friday 28 March 2008, Mark Lord wrote:

Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

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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