Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:30:05 -0500
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On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 18:26 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 22:02, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >Let's do the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver in 2.6.17.
> 
> This thread has run on for a bit longer it seems, and it prompts me to 
> back up to the original post and ask if the raw driver you are removing 
> is the raw driver used when cups tells a device (a printer) to do this 
> file using the -o raw format?
> 
> If this is the case, then a rather large amount of printing 
> functionality will be removed as a side effect.  I hope I'm 
> miss-understanding the intent here.

No, it's a different raw driver, for big databases that basically want
their own custom filesystem on a disk.

Lee

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