From 98e7f29418a4931f97e6b78d1ef3a47103fe6cd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:59:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [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: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 ++++++++ drivers/char/Kconfig | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 77511af4536..1d227ee3792 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ Who: Randy Dunlap --------------------------- +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 + +--------------------------- + What: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion() When: April 2005 Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index 7ccf871d3c9..43d0cb19ef6 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -940,8 +940,8 @@ config RAW_DRIVER 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 the device (eg /dev/hda1) + The raw driver is deprecated and will be removed soon. + Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1) with the O_DIRECT flag. config HPET -- 2.41.1