Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:57:57PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 0bc8b0b..6b845f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -21,14 +21,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>

---------------------------

-What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER)
-When: December 2005
-Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3
- O_DIRECT can be used instead
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
-
----------------------------
-
What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
When: June 2007
Why: Deprecated in favour of the more efficient and robust rawiso interface.


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