Commit c4823983 authored Aug 19, 2020 by Christoph Hellwig Committed by Jens Axboe Sep 01, 2020

raw: deprecate the raw driver



The raw driver has been replaced by O_DIRECT support on the block device
in 2002.  Deprecate it to prepare for removal in a few kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

parent 3310eeba

drivers/char/raw.c

+5 −0

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		@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ static int raw_open(struct inode inode, struct file filp)
		return 0;
		}

		pr_warn_ratelimited(
		"process %s (pid %d) is using the deprecated raw device\n"
		"support will be removed in Linux 5.14.\n",
		current->comm, current->pid);

		mutex_lock(&raw_mutex);

		/*

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