[Frans Pop] [Parted-maintainers] Bug#328629: parted: uses a deprecated ioctl interface for scsi

[Otavio Salvador]

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> [Parted-maintainers] Bug#328629: parted: uses a deprecated ioctl	interface for scsi
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> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:25:21 +0200
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> Package: parted
> Version: 1.6.24-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i
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> During a d-i installation in vmware I noticed the following warnings in the 
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> program parted_devices is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to 
> SG_IO
> program parted_server is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to 
> SG_IO
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> This seems to originate from the following kernel code in
> drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c
>         /* Check for deprecated ioctls ... all the ioctls which don't
>          * follow the new unique numbering scheme are deprecated */
>         switch (cmd) {
>         case SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND:
>         case SCSI_IOCTL_TEST_UNIT_READY:
>         case SCSI_IOCTL_BENCHMARK_COMMAND:
>         case SCSI_IOCTL_SYNC:
>         case SCSI_IOCTL_START_UNIT:
>         case SCSI_IOCTL_STOP_UNIT:
>                 printk(KERN_WARNING "program %s is using a deprecated SCSI "
>                        "ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO\n", current->comm);
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-16.0508-2
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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