The patch titled uml: fix CONFIG_RAW dependencies has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is uml-fix-config_raw-dependencies.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: uml: fix CONFIG_RAW dependencies From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Add the BLOCK dependency for RAW_DRIVER, to match what's in drivers/char/Kconfig. Also, while we're there, update the alleged obsolesence of RAW_DRIVER since it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/Kconfig.char | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/um/Kconfig.char~uml-fix-config_raw-dependencies arch/um/Kconfig.char --- a/arch/um/Kconfig.char~uml-fix-config_raw-dependencies +++ a/arch/um/Kconfig.char @@ -143,14 +143,14 @@ config LEGACY_PTYS systems, it is safe to say N. 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. 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 rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch uml-use-__spin_lock_unlocked.patch uml-fix-config_raw-dependencies.patch xtensa-warn-about-including-asm-rwsemh-directly.patch xtensa-use-newer-__spin_lock_unlocked-macro.patch mn10300-replace-deprecated-topdir-with-newer-srctree.patch remove-apparently-unused-fd1772h-header-file.patch init-delete-hard-coded-setting-and-testing-of-build_cramdisk.patch lib-allow-memparse-to-accept-a-null-and-ignorable-second-parm.patch lib-allow-memparse-to-accept-a-null-and-ignorable-second-parm-checkpatch-fixes.patch lists-remove-a-redundant-conditional-definition-of-list_add.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html