Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 09:52:27AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 19:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
 > > >
 > > > Let's do the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver in 2.6.17.
 > > > 
 > > 
 > > heh.  I was just thinking that I hadn't heard from Badari and Ken in a while.
 > > 
 > > I doubt if this'll fly.  We're stuck with it.
 > 
 > One thing we can do is ask the distributions to stop shipping raw first,
 > to see what the fallout is (and to give it as a sign that it's an
 > obsolete interface). Then a  year or two after that....

It's been off in Fedora since FC4.
RHEL4 had it enabled after several vendors complained a lot about its
absense breaking an installed userbase, though they were told it would be
enabled with the proviso that it would go away in the future.
RHEL5 isn't even in beta yet, but I can already hear the voices asking
for it be reenabled..

		Dave