undeprecate raw driver
Despite repeated attempts over the last two and half years, this driver
seems somewhat persistant. Remove its deprecated status as it has existing
users who may not be in a position to migrate their apps to O_DIRECT.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index f664868..ec9dc3d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -979,15 +979,14 @@
depends on CPU_VR41XX
config RAW_DRIVER
- tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)"
+ tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)"
depends on BLOCK
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.
+ 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 will be removed soon.
- Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1)
+ Applications should preferably open the device (eg /dev/hda1)
with the O_DIRECT flag.
config MAX_RAW_DEVS