Il 03/05/2012 19:36, Mark Lord ha scritto: >> > Excuse my laziness--how does it check? > I don't know if there's a feasible fool-proof method or not. > But what hdparm does is look at the sector offset of the device. > Partitions normally have a non-zero offset. Yeah, that should work. >>> >> But other flags commonly used by distros at boot time >>> >> seem to be triggering the current in-kernel noise. >>> >> Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting >>> >> for the noise message to get reverted. >> > >> > That's exactly the behavior I hoped to get when I added the warnings. >> > Or maybe not. :) What are the messages? >> > i.e. what ioctl do they complain about? > As above: > >>> >> Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting >>> >> for the noise message to get reverted. I said which ioctls, not which options. I.e. cut-and-paste from dmesg. Paolo -- 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