Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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