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SubjectRe: [patch] char/raw.c locking on error
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:36:08 +0300
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:

> Is it still in use - the raw driver, that is? Nowadays,
> every block device can be opened in direct mode by using
> O_DIRECT - this is what raw does. I mean, is it worth
> spending even more time on it?

This was discussed a while back. My understanding is that there are
people using it. It is a user-space ABI of sorts which can't just be
yanked arbitrarily. The right thing to do is probably to replace it
with a shell implementation that just opens the device using O_DIRECT,
but nobody has actually done that...

jon


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