On Friday 28 March 2008, Mark Lord wrote: > Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > >> hdparm explicitely marks HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls as DANGEROUS > >> and given the number of bugs we can assume that there are no real users: > .. > > There is the odd user of these, actually. > > But the most recent to email me (a few weeks ago), > reported that the SCAN function was no longer working on his kernel. > > I'll remove the -R and -U flags completely from hdparm-8.7. This will be quite helpful, thanks! Bart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html