| Stefan Richter | 66fa12c | 2010-10-10 00:12:20 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | What: raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire) |
| 2 | Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 |
| 3 | Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net |
| 4 | Description: |
| 5 | /dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level |
| 6 | access to FireWire buses. Its major drawbacks were its inability |
| 7 | to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level |
| 8 | of abstraction that required userspace clients do duplicate much |
| 9 | of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality. |
| 10 | Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of |
| 11 | firewire-core. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Users: |
| 14 | libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI |
| 15 | users) |