Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[Julien Oster]

Joerg Schilling <schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> But in order to rip an audio CD, you need to use e.g. MODE SELECT.
> If you start to distinct safe SCSI commands from possibly unsafe ones, then 
> MODE SELECT could not be in the list of safe ones.

That is why I'm proposing an empty filter at boot time, which allows
no SG_IO except when having CAP_SYS_RAWIO (which enables everything)
and the possibility to open up certain commands from userspace later.

Julien
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