Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:59:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:59:10 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:2066 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:59:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:44:18 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: Bill Davidsen , LKML Subject: Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7 In-Reply-To: <3C8D5CCD.3050208@mandrakesoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Linus, would it be acceptable to you to include an -optional- filter for > ATA commands? There is definitely a segment of users that would like to > firewall their devices, and I think (as crazy as it may sound) that > notion is a valid one. I'd rather have the rule that you can turn off this feature altogther: if the command is so esoteric that it's not part of the regular commands we can generate on our own, 99% of all people probably aren't even interested in it. If the command is useful on its own, and has a generic meaning (ie across a large subset of users), then I think the kernel should support it through a _real_ interface, not through some "pass user data though inscathed" thing. Because that generic meaning probably exists even outside ATA drives. Linus - 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/