Re: [PATCH] remove the raw driver

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On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 09:38:43AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> 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>
> 

Ah wait, this is in my subsystem :)

I'll queue this up in a few days if no one complains.

thanks,

greg k-h



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