From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:10:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070322001050.13588e5e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070321151952.02b5612d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > This is a user visible API it is therefore not elligable for removal
> > anyway
>
> mutter.
>
> We've given people years of notice and _some_ applications have converted
> over to open("/dev/sda1", O_DIRECT), as they should.
Linus said we don't break old applications by removing APIs. People
believe him.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-21 23:09 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
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 [this message]
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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