Re: [PATCH] remove error message on illegal ioctl

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 06:56:58 EST

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On Mon, Dec 16 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
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> > Your non-root user still has to be able to open the cdrom.
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> Why not just make this all use the "quiet" flag, and make the ioctl's
> always set it. That's what it's there for.

Yes that would be fine. I just don't want uniform packets to be silently
dropped, that makes debugging a problem with a drive pretty much
impossible.

-- Jens Axboe

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