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

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Message-ID: <20070320181442.1ae73295@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:14:42 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"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 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
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