Re: [PATCH] remove the raw driver

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On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 10:25:26AM +0300, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The raw driver used to provide direct unbuffered access to block devices
> before O_DIRECT was invented.  It has been obsolete for more than a
> decade.

What?  Really?  We can finally do this?  Yes!

For some reason, I thought there was some IBM userspace tools that
relied on this device, if not, then great!

> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>




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