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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
981config RAW_DRIVER 981config 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
993config MAX_RAW_DEVS 992config MAX_RAW_DEVS