Re: [patch] char/raw.c locking on error

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:36:08 +0300
Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is it still in use - the raw driver, that is?  Nowadays,
> every block device can be opened in direct mode by using
> O_DIRECT - this is what raw does.  I mean, is it worth
> spending even more time on it?

This was discussed a while back.  My understanding is that there are
people using it.  It is a user-space ABI of sorts which can't just be
yanked arbitrarily.  The right thing to do is probably to replace it
with a shell implementation that just opens the device using O_DIRECT,
but nobody has actually done that...

jon
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