Re: setting up CDB filters in udev (was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] block:add queue-private command filter, editable via sysfs)

[Tejun Heo]

Hey, Alan.

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 08:12:08PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> There are two sensible choices here IMHO
> 
> - The simple sysctl
> 
> - Doing the job right
> 
> A half way solution such as that you are proposing seems to me to achieve
> nothing other than guaranteeing we'll have another pile of useless crap
> to maintain forever as ABI.

I'm all for simple.  Just throw in a sysfs binary switch to allow all
SG_IO for a given block device for users w/ write access.  I'd be
completely happy with that.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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