Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions

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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:55:06PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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..

Oh, right - magneto-optical is also there.  I suspect that HAL doesn't
really care, along the lines of "they are all removable anyway"...
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