[PATCH 0/1] Supress scarey ioctl on partition warnings

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Tue Apr 3 10:22:54 UTC 2012


On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:58:31AM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have seen some reports of these scarey messages appearing, across
> various of our releases.  Looking at the upstream discussion we should
> expect something official to come down probabally from Al Viro.  As we
> are about to hit kernel freeze it seems appropriate to stick something
> in to cover the worst of the offenders.
> 
> I have confirmed that the 32bit compat ioctl numbers for tapes are correct
> for precise.
> 
> Proposing for Precise.
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) elide some ioctl warnings which are known
>     benign
> 
>  block/scsi_ioctl.c |    9 +++++++++
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Ignore this, the wrong patch version slipped out, will resend.

-apw




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