maintainer for raw.c ??
Quoted 11 lines · Tigran Aivazian
Quoted 6 lines · On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 [email protected] wrote:
hi list,
Who takes care of the raw-device section ?
I have a cleanup patch.
neitherMAINTAINERSnorraw.cprovide a hint (couldnt find one).walter
I would have thought Stephen Tweedie <[email protected]> but I am not 100% sure.
Around the lk 2.4.6 timescale Stephen got "verballed" on this list about the design of kiobufs (which lie behind raw devices). Some patches went in from Andrea Arcangeli. I don't think Stephen has had much to do with raw devices or kiobufs since that time.
The good news is that raw devices in the lk 2.5 series are now as fast (if not faster) than they were prior to lk 2.4.6 . As an example, using the scsi_debug driver (it's a ram disk) lk 2.4.18 yields 211 MB/sec while in lk 2.5.6-pre2 that jumps up to 754 MB/sec on the same hardware (1.2 GHz Athlon with DDR ram).
Doug Gilbert