From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752552Ab2EDGj2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2012 02:39:28 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:65353 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752026Ab2EDGj1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2012 02:39:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4FA3799A.6010908@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 08:39:22 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120425 Thunderbird/12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Alan Cox , Jan Kara , Jens Axboe , LKML , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition References: <1335953452-10460-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <4FA1092E.9090603@redhat.com> <20120502115447.7dcc3a54@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <4FA11454.2010103@redhat.com> <20120502121208.3c19a9bc@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <4FA11963.3040007@redhat.com> <4FA18D33.3060607@teksavvy.com> <4FA23809.2090905@redhat.com> <4FA27CDB.2080103@teksavvy.com> <4FA27E7C.6070802@redhat.com> <4FA2C205.3030801@teksavvy.com> In-Reply-To: <4FA2C205.3030801@teksavvy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Il 03/05/2012 19:36, Mark Lord ha scritto: >> > Excuse my laziness--how does it check? > I don't know if there's a feasible fool-proof method or not. > But what hdparm does is look at the sector offset of the device. > Partitions normally have a non-zero offset. Yeah, that should work. >>> >> But other flags commonly used by distros at boot time >>> >> seem to be triggering the current in-kernel noise. >>> >> Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting >>> >> for the noise message to get reverted. >> > >> > That's exactly the behavior I hoped to get when I added the warnings. >> > Or maybe not. :) What are the messages? >> > i.e. what ioctl do they complain about? > As above: > >>> >> Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting >>> >> for the noise message to get reverted. I said which ioctls, not which options. I.e. cut-and-paste from dmesg. Paolo