Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm1

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:31:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> >
> > { raw driver stuff ]
> >
> 
> I'd be inclined to leave the raw driver as-is, frankly.  It's deprecated,
> obsolete and we should be trying to remove it from 2.7.
> 
> --- 25/drivers/char/Kconfig~raw-is-obsolete	2004-01-22 12:30:02.000000000 -0800
> +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/Kconfig	2004-01-22 12:31:32.000000000 -0800
> @@ -961,12 +961,15 @@ config SCx200_GPIO
>  	  If compiled as a module, it will be called scx200_gpio.
>  
>  config RAW_DRIVER
> -	tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)"
> +	tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)"
>  	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 may be removed from 2.7 kernels.
> +          Applications should simply open /dev/hda with the O_DIRECT flag.
>...

Nitpicking:
  /dev/hda -> the device

cu
Adrian

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