Re: [2.6 patch] remove the obsolete raw driver

Horst von Brand
2005-05-21T21:29:33Z

Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> said:
> Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was
> obsolete.
>
> It seems to be time to remove it.

[...]

> - The raw driver is deprecated and may be removed from 2.7
> - kernels. Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1)
> - with the O_DIRECT flag.

To me, this sounds like a promise to keep it around for 2.6 at least...
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