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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 9 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index f5d6f4d1624d..18bd2ddccb15 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: old NCR53C9x driver When: October 2007 Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index f6648682b43a..ec9dc3d53f18 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -979,15 +979,14 @@ 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 |