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To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: 18 Mar 2007 16:57:57 +0100
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"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