Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:10:10 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions |
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:55:06PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:51:31PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > > What got broken? Code that used to assume that sd.c will never, ever handle > > openly RBC disks. As long as that remained true, userland could assume that > > "sd fodder" and "has type 0" were the same. Which was never guaranteed. > > sd also has been handling TYPE_MOD forever, which HAL still doesn't deal > with. Not that it should care at all about the scsi command type as > you mentioned..
Oh, right - magneto-optical is also there. I suspect that HAL doesn't really care, along the lines of "they are all removable anyway"... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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