From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:47:51 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703201447200.12350@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070320181442.1ae73295@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:57:36 -0400
> Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:57:57PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > "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.
> >
> > 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 <davej@redhat.com>
>
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
>
> This is a user visible API it is therefore not elligable for removal
> anyway
great, now i can stop whining about it. :-)
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-20 19:11 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 [this message]
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
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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