Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver | From | Badari Pulavarty <> | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:44:31 -0800 |
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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.
>From the customer perspective, it would be nice to have "raw", since they are used to it.
Now, putting on my "community hat" - we gave enough notice about the removal. Few major distro releases happend after that. So, I am not really going to complain - if it goes away.
But again, its really useful to have raw driver to do simple "dd" tests to test raw performance for disks (for comparing with filesystems, block devices etc..). Without that, we need to add option to "dd" for O_DIRECT.
Thanks, Badari
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