diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index f5d6f4d1624d55bfcff1b8524fe180b4ebefca6e..18bd2ddccb156aef5175533e084625a50e8827eb 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 f6648682b43ab4669a8e06dbb46adf9649c94049..ec9dc3d53f18355ded75309baf8afd7746563032 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