From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eteo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch] char/raw.c locking on error
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:44:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090327154403.4712afe3@bike.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49CD46C8.8040606@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:36:08 +0300
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> Is it still in use - the raw driver, that is? Nowadays,
> every block device can be opened in direct mode by using
> O_DIRECT - this is what raw does. I mean, is it worth
> spending even more time on it?
This was discussed a while back. My understanding is that there are
people using it. It is a user-space ABI of sorts which can't just be
yanked arbitrarily. The right thing to do is probably to replace it
with a shell implementation that just opens the device using O_DIRECT,
but nobody has actually done that...
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-27 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-27 10:28 Dan Carpenter
2009-03-27 15:48 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-03-27 21:36 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-03-27 21:44 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2009-03-28 0:23 ` Alan Cox
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2009-03-27 23:49 ` Bodo Eggert
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