linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.

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Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:47:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:57:36 -0400
> Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:57:57PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >  > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> writes:
> >  >
> >  > > Delete the allegedly obsolete raw driver feature, which has been
> >  > > marked for death since 2005.
> >  >
> >  > I think it would be better to replace it with a wrapper
> >  > that forces O_DIRECT and opens the underlying block device.  I suspect
> >  > just dropping it will break many people's database setups, which is not
> >  > nice.  Widely used admin interfaces should be only broken when
> >  > there is a very good reason and just "there is a better way now"
> >  > doesn't seem quite strong enough.
> >
> > Agreed.  Given how this keeps coming up every few months, lets just
> > remove that from the list..  It's not that a 306 line driver is
> > particularly invasive anyways..
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
>
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
>
> This is a user visible API it is therefore not elligable for removal
> anyway

great, now i can stop whining about it.  :-)

rday
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