Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:31:56 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm1
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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.
+
 config MAX_RAW_DEVS
 	int "Maximum number of RAW devices to support (1-8192)"
 	depends on RAW_DRIVER

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