On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:12:06AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 00:14 -0800, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: Thomas Maguin <T.Maguin@xxxxxx> > > > This patch allows normal users to eectute some Plextor drives > > commands: > > > > - Hide CD-R > > - SingleSession > > - SpeedRead > > - PowerRec > > - VariRec > > - GigaRec > > > > This one just isn't safe. We can't add vendor specific commands to the > permissions table because they mean different things to different > vendors ... get mode on one could be halt and catch fire on another, so > the whole concept of safety via command verification is lost. Thanks for NAKing this one again, James. I'm a bit disappointed akpm picked it up given that I explained how unsafe it was when it was posted: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=113976322621230&w=2 - : 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
