Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: [patch] char/raw.c locking on error | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:49:27 +0100 |
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Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote: > 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?
As long as you don't fix all the legacy applications to use O_DIRECT.
> 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...
It had long been done when before it was discussed the last time.
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