On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:38:49PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2005-04-27 at 18:16, Greg KH wrote: > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > This patch is just wrong on so many different levels its hard to know > where to begin. But that is what is now in mainline, right? If so, all of these questions still pertain to the current tree... > 1. The auth for arbitary commands is CAP_SYS_RAWIO > 2. "The SCSI command permissions were discussed widely on the linux > lists but this did not result in any useful refinement of the > permissions." - this is false. The process was refined, a table setup > was added and debugged. Someone even wrote an fs for managing it that is > not yet merged. Perhaps the patch author would care to re-read the > archives and submit a new patch if one is even needed > 3. Pleas explain *what* the specific consistency problems are > > And then please fix the same mess in 12rc. thanks, greg k-h - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html