On 2/10/2011 2:19 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Unlocking doesn't equal thrashing and if root wants to ignore BIOS > suggestions, root shall be able to. There is a big difference between root choosing to override and the kernel blindly doing it by default. When you do it by default, then the user creates a partition using the protected area, you trash whatever the bios was storing there. > That's something BIOS writers should deal with. Report it to them. > Distros can be nice and lock it again during shutdown sequence from > userland too but I don't think it's something which should dictate the > decisions. The BIOS dealing with it isn't going to happen because of the "it works with windows" malaise. Userland handling it won't work when you sysrq-b or similar. -- 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
