Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm1

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 01/22/04

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    Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:30:36 +0100
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

    On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:31:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > 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.
    >...

    Nitpicking:
      /dev/hda -> the device

    cu
    Adrian 

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