Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161258AbWBVSKZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:10:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161269AbWBVSKZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:10:25 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:51359 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161258AbWBVSKY (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:10:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:10:10 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , David Zeuthen , Kay Sievers , Pekka J Enberg , Greg KH , Adrian Bunk , Robert Love , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , John Stultz Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions Message-ID: <20060222181010.GE27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20060220010205.GB22738@suse.de> <1140562261.11278.6.camel@localhost> <20060221225718.GA12480@vrfy.org> <20060222152743.GA22281@vrfy.org> <1140625103.21517.18.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com> <20060222175131.GC27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20060222175506.GA21080@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060222175506.GA21080@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 17 On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:55:06PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:51:31PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > > What got broken? Code that used to assume that sd.c will never, ever handle > > openly RBC disks. As long as that remained true, userland could assume that > > "sd fodder" and "has type 0" were the same. Which was never guaranteed. > > sd also has been handling TYPE_MOD forever, which HAL still doesn't deal > with. Not that it should care at all about the scsi command type as > you mentioned.. Oh, right - magneto-optical is also there. I suspect that HAL doesn't really care, along the lines of "they are all removable anyway"... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/