On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > 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
great, now i can stop whining about it. :-) 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/
