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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/um/Kconfig.char | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.char b/arch/um/Kconfig.char index 3a4b396d7979..1b238ebae6b3 100644 --- a/arch/um/Kconfig.char +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.char @@ -145,14 +145,14 @@ config LEGACY_PTYS systems, it is safe to say N. 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. 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 |