Re: [PATCH 2/3] block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partitiondevices

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/22/2011 02:25 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I don't *think* anybody does something as crazy as giving actual block
> device ownership to people, but I don't know...

It's quite common and often very necessary to do, to allow a user to
manipulate a device that is not intended to be mounted.

	-hpa

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