Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition

[Mark Lord]

On 12-05-03 03:47 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 02/05/2012 21:38, Mark Lord ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>> Indeed, RHEL doesn't have the warning at all and blocks all ioctls
>>>> including SG_IO (and in the past six months nobody has complained that
>>>> something stopped working for them).  Never said the patch is perfect...
>> hdparm.
>>
> 
> Breaking "hdparm --write-sector /dev/sda1"?  I call it a security fix.

No, that would plain stupid on both our parts.  :)
The --write-sector flag is allowed only for non-partitions by hdparm itself.

But other flags commonly used by distros at boot time
seem to be triggering the current in-kernel noise.
Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting
for the noise message to get reverted.

Cheers

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