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| author | Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> | 2007-07-15 23:40:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 09:05:46 -0700 |
| commit | abd4aa5a97ebc0efb9a7fbc98ef0bcf39266fadf (patch) | |
| tree | f592a7d6bcc85687f101c78cd5f43df42af5df2d | |
| parent | f3a740c5fb792098d7e7a24cd194a6d8c710ea94 (diff) | |
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>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 9 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index f5d6f4d1624..18bd2ddccb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -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 diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index f6648682b43..ec9dc3d53f1 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -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. + 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 |