From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934035AbXCTTLs (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:11:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934034AbXCTTLr (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:11:47 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:48604 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934035AbXCTTLr (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:11:47 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 74.108.131.3 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:47:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Alan Cox cc: Dave Jones , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature. In-Reply-To: <20070320181442.1ae73295@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20070320165736.GA19781@redhat.com> <20070320181442.1ae73295@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:57:36 -0400 > Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:57:57PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > "Robert P. J. Day" 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 > > Acked-by: Alan Cox > > 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 ========================================================================