Re: Parted 1.6.19 + Linux 2.6.10 == "deprecated SCSI ioctl"

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:14:58PM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Running Parted 1.6.19 on a SCSI system with Linux kernel 2.6.10-rc3, I
> see several console messages like these:
> 
>   program parted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
> 
> Apparently, a bunch of ioctls are being deprecated in 2.6.10.  See
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131199> for a
> list.

 From that page :

 Note that in newer Linux kernels, the following ioctls are deprecated:
 SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND
 SCSI_IOCTL_TEST_UNIT_READY
 SCSI_IOCTL_BENCHMARK_COMMAND
 SCSI_IOCTL_SYNC
 SCSI_IOCTL_START_UNIT
 SCSI_IOCTL_STOP_UNIT

The one probably concerned here is SCSI_IOCTL_SYNC, i guess.

Friendly,

Sven LUther