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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: undeprecate raw driver.
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 12:32:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070513163220.GA31902@redhat.com> (raw)

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>

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 498ff31..5108619 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:	raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
 When:	June 2007
 Why:	Deprecated in favour of the more efficient and robust rawiso interface.
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index abcafac..1e4d688 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -993,15 +993,14 @@ 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

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-13 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-13 16:32 Dave Jones [this message]
2007-05-13 16:35 ` undeprecate raw driver Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-13 16:43   ` Dave Jones
2007-05-13 16:46   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-13 17:34     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-05-13 17:56       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-13 20:06         ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-13 20:24           ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-13 21:40             ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-13 20:10         ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-13 21:49           ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-13 22:42             ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-13 23:01           ` Bob Johnston
2007-05-14 11:42             ` Alan Cox
2007-05-14 13:53               ` Bob Johnston
2007-05-14 14:07                 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-15  2:47                   ` David Schwartz
2007-05-14 13:39     ` Bill Davidsen

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