Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030422AbWASFo1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:44:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932545AbWASFo1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:44:27 -0500 Received: from fmr22.intel.com ([143.183.121.14]:47492 "EHLO scsfmr002.sc.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932543AbWASFo0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:44:26 -0500 Message-Id: <200601190543.k0J5hBg06542@unix-os.sc.intel.com> From: "Chen, Kenneth W" To: "'Andrew Morton'" , "Adrian Bunk" Cc: , "Badari Pulavarty" Subject: RE: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:43:12 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcYcqkbBVv2AVwZEQ6+4zHVWLRJfhAAD4tNQ In-Reply-To: <20060118194103.5c569040.akpm@osdl.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 765 Lines: 22 Andrew Morton wrote on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:41 PM > Adrian Bunk 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. Could we please, leave the raw device driver alone. ISV is doing their diligent work converting new code to O_DIRECT, but large amount of field customers are still using raw device in their setup. - Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/