Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm1

Adrian Bunk
2004-01-22T21:30:46Z

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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