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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2021-05-31 10:25:26 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-06-04 15:35:03 +0200 |
| commit | 603e4922f1c81fc2ed3a87b4f91a8d3aafc7e093 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d2daef913b0da7452d1a844ee76e150b10c011f /drivers/char/Kconfig | |
| parent | 39ee156c5ac1b9ca42cb7086c7893b19596c85ab (diff) | |
remove the raw driver
The raw driver used to provide direct unbuffered access to block devices
before O_DIRECT was invented. It has been obsolete for more than a
decade.
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.64.0703180754060.6605@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6/
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210531072526.97052-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 21 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index b151e0fcdeb5..8e516aad632b 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -357,27 +357,6 @@ config NVRAM To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called nvram. -config RAW_DRIVER - 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. - - Applications should preferably open the device (eg /dev/hda1) - with the O_DIRECT flag. - -config MAX_RAW_DEVS - int "Maximum number of RAW devices to support (1-65536)" - depends on RAW_DRIVER - range 1 65536 - default "256" - help - The maximum number of RAW devices that are supported. - Default is 256. Increase this number in case you need lots of - raw devices. - config DEVPORT bool "/dev/port character device" depends on ISA || PCI |