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/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index f5d6f4d..18bd2dd 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -41,14 +41,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:  RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER)
-When:  December 2005
-Why:   declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3
-       O_DIRECT can be used instead
-Who:   Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:  old NCR53C9x driver
 When:  October 2007
 Why:   Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver.  Actual low-level

diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index f664868..ec9dc3d 100644 (file)
--- 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