Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751398AbWASQwt (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:52:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751405AbWASQwt (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:52:49 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:41367 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751398AbWASQws (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:52:48 -0500 Message-ID: <43CFC3D0.1010607@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:52:32 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051013 Debian/1.7.12-1ubuntu1 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Andrew Morton , Adrian Bunk , lkml , "Chen, Kenneth W" Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver References: <20060119030251.GG19398@stusta.de> <20060118194103.5c569040.akpm@osdl.org> <1137689071.4966.190.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1137689071.4966.190.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 655 Lines: 16 Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > 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. Perhaps it's time for 'dd' to acquire something like the 'hdparm --direct' flag. (and, oops, maybe I should add it to the man page for hdparm too!). Cheers - 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/