Commit abd4aa5a authored by Dave Jones's avatar Dave Jones Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f3a740c5
......@@ -41,14 +41,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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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>
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What: old NCR53C9x driver
When: October 2007
Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
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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.
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
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