From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:31:56 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Message-Id: <20040122123156.2588d0a1.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040122151943.GW21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20040122013501.2251e65e.akpm@osdl.org> <20040122110342.A9271@infradead.org> <20040122151943.GW21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 _ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org