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| author | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2005-06-25 14:59:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-25 16:25:11 -0700 |
| commit | 98e7f29418a4931f97e6b78d1ef3a47103fe6cd5 (patch) | |
| tree | 8de824e3d6c0640ea78098f9b71ee1a7e4264ced | |
| parent | c33ed271263f5fb6ca5ab888b98a55ae5d138c0b (diff) | |
[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>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 4 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 77511af4536..1d227ee3792 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -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 diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index 7ccf871d3c9..43d0cb19ef6 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -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 |