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

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Message-ID: <20070320165736.GA19781@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:57:36 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	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 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>

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 0bc8b0b..6b845f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -21,14 +21,6 @@ Who:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:	RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER)
-When:	December 2005
-Why:	declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3
-	O_DIRECT can be used instead
-Who:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:	raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
 When:	June 2007
 Why:	Deprecated in favour of the more efficient and robust rawiso interface.


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