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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:56:58 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove error message on illegal ioctl
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On Mon, Dec 16 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > Your non-root user still has to be able to open the cdrom.
> 
> Why not just make this all use the "quiet" flag, and make the ioctl's
> always set it. That's what it's there for.

Yes that would be fine. I just don't want uniform packets to be silently
dropped, that makes debugging a problem with a drive pretty much
impossible.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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