On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> wrote: > > Il 29/02/2012 01:14, Linus Torvalds ha scritto: > > So I'm still not convinced this is safe, and feel a bit worried about > > us possibly silently missing some things. That > > > > default: > > return -ENOIOCTLCMD; > > > > is what worries me. > > > > Blocking the ones we *know* about and understand I'm perfectly fine > > with. And the SG_IO case looks fine. It's the possibly unknown users > > that still worry me. > > I understand. > > But being 100% sure that nothing breaks is > impossible, unfortunately, so does it make sense to aim at 100%? And it > should be extremely easy to bisect failures. Even with all the > differences, it reminds me of the recent change to poll.
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