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Commit abd4aa5a authored Jul 15, 2007 by Dave Jones Committed by Linus Torvalds Jul 16, 2007

undeprecate raw driver

Despite repeated attempts over the last two and half years, this driver
seems somewhat persistant. Remove its deprecated status as it has existing
users who may not be in a position to migrate their apps to O_DIRECT.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent f3a740c5

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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	@@ -41,14 +41,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>

	---------------------------		---------------------------

	What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER)
	When: December 2005
	Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3
	O_DIRECT can be used instead
	Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

	---------------------------

	What: old NCR53C9x driver		What: old NCR53C9x driver
	When: October 2007		When: October 2007
	Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level		Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level

drivers/char/Kconfig

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	@@ -979,15 +979,14 @@ config GPIO_VR41XX
	depends on CPU_VR41XX		depends on CPU_VR41XX

	config RAW_DRIVER		config RAW_DRIVER
	tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)"		tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)"
	depends on BLOCK		depends on BLOCK
	help		help
	The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN.		The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN.
	Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O.		Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O.
	See the raw(8) manpage for more details.		See the raw(8) manpage for more details.

	The raw driver is deprecated and will be removed soon.		Applications should preferably open the device (eg /dev/hda1)
	Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1)
	with the O_DIRECT flag.		with the O_DIRECT flag.

	config MAX_RAW_DEVS		config MAX_RAW_DEVS