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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:57:36 -0400
> Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:57:57PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Delete the allegedly obsolete raw driver feature, which has been
> > > > marked for death since 2005.
> > >
> > > I think it would be better to replace it with a wrapper
> > > that forces O_DIRECT and opens the underlying block device. I suspect
> > > just dropping it will break many people's database setups, which is not
> > > nice. Widely used admin interfaces should be only broken when
> > > there is a very good reason and just "there is a better way now"
> > > doesn't seem quite strong enough.
> >
> > Agreed. Given how this keeps coming up every few months, lets just
> > remove that from the list.. It's not that a 306 line driver is
> > particularly invasive anyways..
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
>
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
>
> This is a user visible API it is therefore not elligable for removal
> anyway

great, now i can stop whining about it. :-)

rday
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