Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:17:18 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver |
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Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 09:52:27AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 19:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > > > > > > > Let's do the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver in 2.6.17. > > > > > > > > > > heh. I was just thinking that I hadn't heard from Badari and Ken in a while. > > > > > > I doubt if this'll fly. We're stuck with it. > > > > One thing we can do is ask the distributions to stop shipping raw first, > > to see what the fallout is (and to give it as a sign that it's an > > obsolete interface). Then a year or two after that.... > > It's been off in Fedora since FC4. > RHEL4 had it enabled after several vendors complained a lot about its > absense breaking an installed userbase, though they were told it would be > enabled with the proviso that it would go away in the future. > RHEL5 isn't even in beta yet, but I can already hear the voices asking > for it be reenabled.. >
Thanks for trying though ;) It's good that RH is helping to push things along like this - the easiest path would be to turn the thing on and complain when anyone made noises about taking it out.
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