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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index f6648682b43a..ec9dc3d53f18 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -979,15 +979,14 @@ config GPIO_VR41XX
         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