undeprecate raw driver.

Dave Jones
2007-05-13T16:32:29Z

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

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