On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:57:36 -0400 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:57:57PM +0100, 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. > > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a user visible API it is therefore not elligable for removal anyway - 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/
