On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
ok, i'll leave that in the hands of those higher up the food chain. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
