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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 9 |
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 | |||
979 | depends on CPU_VR41XX | 979 | depends on CPU_VR41XX |
980 | 980 | ||
981 | config RAW_DRIVER | 981 | config RAW_DRIVER |
982 | tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)" | 982 | tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)" |
983 | depends on BLOCK | 983 | depends on BLOCK |
984 | help | 984 | help |
985 | The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN. | 985 | The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN. |
986 | Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O. | 986 | Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O. |
987 | See the raw(8) manpage for more details. | 987 | See the raw(8) manpage for more details. |
988 | 988 | ||
989 | The raw driver is deprecated and will be removed soon. | 989 | Applications should preferably open the device (eg /dev/hda1) |
990 | Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1) | ||
991 | with the O_DIRECT flag. | 990 | with the O_DIRECT flag. |
992 | 991 | ||
993 | config MAX_RAW_DEVS | 992 | config MAX_RAW_DEVS |