Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.18-rc3

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Jul 06 2018 - 22:49:29 EST


On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 7:39 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'd rather add a deprecation warning to the whole "read/write
> to /dev/sg" itself

In the meantime, I've pulled this, but do wonder why we actually allow
that crazy read/write that doesn't even work for any other models (ie
I guarantee you that cdrom writers etc don't use that interface,
because SG_IO is the only thing that works on most hardware).

Linus