Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:02:29 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:43:12PM -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:41 PM
> > 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.
> 
> 
> 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.

Why did noone tell me anythong about such issues although I'm the one 
listed as having this driver deprecated?
Is our feature removal process completely busted?

And WTF is ISV?

> - Ken

cu
Adrian

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