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Commit b2df6ea7 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] deprecate the raw driver 

Fat chance, but we should try.
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...@@ -962,12 +962,16 @@ config SCx200_GPIO ...@@ -962,12 +962,16 @@ config SCx200_GPIO
If compiled as a module, it will be called scx200_gpio. If compiled as a module, it will be called scx200_gpio.
config RAW_DRIVER config RAW_DRIVER
tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)" tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)"
help help
The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN. 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. Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O.
See the raw(8) manpage for more details. 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)
with the O_DIRECT flag.
config MAX_RAW_DEVS config MAX_RAW_DEVS
int "Maximum number of RAW devices to support (1-8192)" int "Maximum number of RAW devices to support (1-8192)"
depends on RAW_DRIVER depends on RAW_DRIVER
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