Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 12:53:03 EST


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..
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