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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver
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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