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
		When: October 2007
		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

		config RAW_DRIVER
		tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)"
		tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)"
		depends on BLOCK
		help
		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.
		See the raw(8) manpage for more details.

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

		config MAX_RAW_DEVS