Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:30:05 -0500 |
| |
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 18:26 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 22:02, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >Let's do the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver in 2.6.17. > > This thread has run on for a bit longer it seems, and it prompts me to > back up to the original post and ask if the raw driver you are removing > is the raw driver used when cups tells a device (a printer) to do this > file using the -o raw format? > > If this is the case, then a rather large amount of printing > functionality will be removed as a side effect. I hope I'm > miss-understanding the intent here.
No, it's a different raw driver, for big databases that basically want their own custom filesystem on a disk.
Lee
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |