Re: undeprecate raw driver.

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:35:45PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

 > >-	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
 > 
 > At least keep the "it's obsolete" Kconfig description. We
 > don't want new users/projects to jump on /dev/raw.

That'll just lead to some janitor sending more "OMG! OBSOLETE!" cleanup
patches getting it re-added to the feature-removal.txt
If we undeprecate it, it won't be going away, so new users of it
aren't any more of a problem than they have been the last two and
a half years.

	Dave

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