The patch titled
undeprecate raw driver
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
undeprecate-raw-driver.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: undeprecate raw driver
From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 --------
drivers/char/Kconfig | 9 ++++-----
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~undeprecate-raw-driver Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~undeprecate-raw-driver
+++ a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -41,14 +41,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
---------------------------
-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@xxxxxxxxx>
-
----------------------------
-
What: old NCR53C9x driver
When: October 2007
Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
diff -puN drivers/char/Kconfig~undeprecate-raw-driver drivers/char/Kconfig
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig~undeprecate-raw-driver
+++ a/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
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from davej@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
fix-empty-macros-in-acpi.patch
git-alsa.patch
i386-remove-support-for-the-rise-cpu.patch
slow-down-printk-during-boot.patch
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