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Commit 98e7f294 authored Jun 25, 2005 by Adrian Bunk Committed by Linus Torvalds Jun 25, 2005

[PATCH] schedule the obsolete raw driver for removal



Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was
obsolete.

(trolling for IBMers)

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent c33ed271

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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		@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ Who: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>

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

		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: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion()
		When: April 2005
		Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method

drivers/char/Kconfig

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		@@ -940,8 +940,8 @@ config RAW_DRIVER
		Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O.
		See the raw(8) manpage for more details.

		The raw driver is deprecated and may be removed from 2.7
		kernels. Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1)
		The raw driver is deprecated and will be removed soon.
		Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1)
		with the O_DIRECT flag.

		config HPET