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]> diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 0bc8b0b..6b845f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -21,14 +21,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------- -What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER) -When: December 2005 -Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3 - O_DIRECT can be used instead -Who: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - ---------------------------- - What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN When: June 2007 Why: Deprecated in favour of the more efficient and robust rawiso interface. -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/
