Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:57:36 -0400
Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is a user visible API it is therefore not elligable for removal
anyway
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