From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965338AbXCTQ7z (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:59:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965389AbXCTQ7z (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:59:55 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:39255 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965338AbXCTQ7y (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:59:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:57:36 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Andi Kleen Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature. Message-ID: <20070320165736.GA19781@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andi Kleen , "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Adrian Bunk References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:57:57PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" 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 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 --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - 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