From abd4aa5a97ebc0efb9a7fbc98ef0bcf39266fadf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:40:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] undeprecate raw driver
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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 --------
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 f5d6f4d1624d5..18bd2ddccb156 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 f6648682b43ab..ec9dc3d53f183 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
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