rawhide report: 20041015 changes
Matias Féliciano
feliciano.matias at free.fr
Fri Oct 15 17:21:39 UTC 2004
Le vendredi 15 octobre 2004 à 12:21 -0400, Dave Jones a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 06:14:33PM +0200, Matias Féliciano wrote:
> > Le vendredi 15 octobre 2004 à 08:01 -0400, Build System a écrit :
> > > kernel-2.6.8-1.624
> > > ------------------
> >
> >
> > $ diff /boot/config-2.6.8-1.610 /boot/config-2.6.8-1.624
> > 1681c1682
> > < CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER=m
> > ---
> > > CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER=y
> >
> >
> > Why there is raw support in the kernel whereas util-linux from Fedora
> > drop raw support ?
>
> That's a slip-up caused by the RHEL4 kernel being built from the same
> sources.
OK. Good reason ;-)
>
> it should be off for Fedora.
>
> > Is there a new way to create (obsolete) raw device other than using the
> > "raw" programme (normally in util-linux) ?
>
> Use O_DIRECT directly on the block device.
Yes, but O_DIRECT does not need CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER .
Now I understand the situation.
Thanks for the reply.
> Dave
>
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