Commit 98e7f294 authored by Adrian Bunk's avatar Adrian Bunk Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] schedule the obsolete raw driver for removal

Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was
obsolete.

(trolling for IBMers)
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent c33ed271
...@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ Who: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> ...@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ Who: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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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>
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What: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion() What: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion()
When: April 2005 When: April 2005
Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method
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...@@ -940,8 +940,8 @@ config RAW_DRIVER ...@@ -940,8 +940,8 @@ config RAW_DRIVER
Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O. Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O.
See the raw(8) manpage for more details. See the raw(8) manpage for more details.
The raw driver is deprecated and may be removed from 2.7 The raw driver is deprecated and will be removed soon.
kernels. Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1) Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1)
with the O_DIRECT flag. with the O_DIRECT flag.
config HPET config HPET
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