From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.
Date: 18 Mar 2007 16:57:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73y7lu5yt6.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703180754060.6605@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> 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.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-18 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-18 11:59 [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature Robert P. J. Day
2007-03-18 15:57 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-03-18 15:38 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-03-20 16:57 ` Dave Jones
2007-03-20 18:14 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-20 18:47 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-03-21 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-21 23:19 ` Dave Jones
2007-03-21 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-21 23:42 ` Dave Jones
2007-03-21 23:56 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-22 0:10 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-21 23:13 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-21 23:24 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-21 23:43 ` Dave Jones
2007-03-22 4:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-22 4:17 ` Dave Jones
2007-03-22 4:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-22 5:02 ` Dave Jones
2007-03-22 5:53 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-22 6:10 ` Dave Jones
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