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
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:31:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040122123156.2588d0a1.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040122151943.GW21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-22 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-22 9:35 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-01-22 11:03 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-22 15:19 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 viro
2004-01-22 20:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-22 21:30 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Adrian Bunk
2004-01-22 23:38 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Greg KH
2004-01-23 0:24 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 viro
2004-01-23 0:41 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Greg KH
2004-01-22 11:05 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-22 11:07 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-22 11:12 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-22 12:17 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Jeff Dike
2004-01-22 12:00 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-22 13:28 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Jeff Dike
2004-01-22 16:26 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-01-22 21:12 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Tom Rini
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