Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:44:03 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [patch] char/raw.c locking on error |
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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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