On Wed, 02 May 2012 12:15:10 +0200 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Il 02/05/2012 12:10, Jan Kara ha scritto: > > Sometimes, warnings about ioctls to partition happen often enough that they > > form majority of the warnings in the kernel log and users complain. In some > > cases warnings are about ioctls such as SG_IO so it's not good to get rid of > > the warnings completely as they can ease debugging of userspace problems > > when ioctl is refused. > > > > Since I have seen warnings from lots of commands, including some proprietary > > userspace applications, I don't think disallowing the ioctls for processes > > with CAP_SYS_RAWIO will happen in the near future if ever. So lets just > > stop warning for processes with CAP_SYS_RAWIO for which ioctl is allowed. > > NACK. I would bet that all the warnings you've seen are for ioctl that > would have failed anyway with ENOTTY. Then we don't need the bogus warning do we. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
