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-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt8
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/Kconfig9
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index f5d6f4d..18bd2dd 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 f664868..ec9dc3d 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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