Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Jan 21 2006 - 03:51:03 EST


On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 19:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

One thing we can do is ask the distributions to stop shipping raw first,
to see what the fallout is (and to give it as a sign that it's an
obsolete interface). Then a year or two after that....

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