Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:30:36 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 |
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:31:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > > > { raw driver stuff ] > > > > I'd be inclined to leave the raw driver as-is, frankly. It's deprecated, > obsolete and we should be trying to remove it from 2.7. > > --- 25/drivers/char/Kconfig~raw-is-obsolete 2004-01-22 12:30:02.000000000 -0800 > +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/Kconfig 2004-01-22 12:31:32.000000000 -0800 > @@ -961,12 +961,15 @@ config SCx200_GPIO > If compiled as a module, it will be called scx200_gpio. > > config RAW_DRIVER > - tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)" > + tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)" > 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 may be removed from 2.7 kernels. > + Applications should simply open /dev/hda with the O_DIRECT flag. >...
Nitpicking: /dev/hda -> the device
cu Adrian
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