This warning was slightly useful back in 2.2 days, but is more an annoyance now. It makes it awkward to add new ioctls (that we we are likely to do that in the current climate, but it is possible). Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ ./drivers/md/md.c --- ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ 2006-05-01 15:09:20.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2006-05-01 15:10:17.000000000 +1000 @@ -3964,11 +3964,6 @@ static int md_ioctl(struct inode *inode, goto done_unlock; default: - if (_IOC_TYPE(cmd) == MD_MAJOR) - printk(KERN_WARNING "md: %s(pid %d) used" - " obsolete MD ioctl, upgrade your" - " software to use new ictls.\n", - current->comm, current->pid); err = -EINVAL; goto abort_unlock; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html