Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> said:
> Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was
> obsolete.
>
> It seems to be time to remove it.
[...]
> - The raw driver is deprecated and may be removed from 2.7
> - kernels. Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1)
> - with the O_DIRECT flag.
To me, this sounds like a promise to keep it around for 2.6 at least...
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