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

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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..
> 

Thanks for trying though ;) It's good that RH is helping to push things
along like this - the easiest path would be to turn the thing on and
complain when anyone made noises about taking it out.