Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] remove the obsolete raw driver | Date | Fri, 20 May 2005 20:45:08 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> said: > Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was > obsolete. > > It seems to be time to remove it.
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> - The raw driver is deprecated and may be removed from 2.7 > - kernels. Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1) > - with the O_DIRECT flag.
To me, this sounds like a promise to keep it around for 2.6 at least... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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