Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver
From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:44:31 -0800
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On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 19:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> 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.

>From the customer perspective, it would be nice to have "raw", since
they are used to it.

Now, putting on my "community hat" - we gave enough notice about the
removal. Few major distro releases happend after that. So, I am not
really going to complain - if it goes away.

But again, its really useful to have raw driver to do simple "dd" tests
to test raw performance for disks (for comparing with filesystems, block
devices etc..). Without that, we need to add option to "dd" for
O_DIRECT.

Thanks,
Badari

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