Linus is away so I am just throwing this out on lkml..
This error message is uber annoying and needs to go. Non-root can flood
the console with this junk on invalid SCSI CD-ROM ioctl(), and that is
exactly what gnome-cd does.
An illegal ioctl() returns an error to the program. That is sufficient
- we do not need KERN_ERROR warnings all over the place. Especially
when any user can cause them at any rate.
This patch, against 2.5.51, removes the message.
Robert Love
drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c | 3 ---
1 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff -urN linux-2.5.51-mm1/drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c linux/drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c
--- linux-2.5.51-mm1/drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c 2002-12-10 17:45:03.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c 2002-12-11 00:44:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -156,9 +156,6 @@
err = -ENOMEDIUM;
break;
case ILLEGAL_REQUEST:
- if (!cgc->quiet)
- printk(KERN_ERR "%s: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL "
- "REQUEST.\n", cd->cdi.name);
err = -EIO;
if (SRpnt->sr_sense_buffer[12] == 0x20 &&
SRpnt->sr_sense_buffer[13] == 0x00)