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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 4 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 77511af45362..1d227ee3792a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ Who: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> --------------------------- +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: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion() When: April 2005 Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index 7ccf871d3c9d..43d0cb19ef6a 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -940,8 +940,8 @@ config RAW_DRIVER 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 the device (eg /dev/hda1) + The raw driver is deprecated and will be removed soon. + Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1) with the O_DIRECT flag. config HPET |
