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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-30 10:43:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-30 10:43:08 +0200 |
| commit | 169ed55bd30305b933f52bfab32a58671d44ab68 (patch) | |
| tree | 32e280957474f458901abfce16fa2a1687ef7497 /Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 | |
| parent | oprofile: Remove deprecated use of flush_scheduled_work() (diff) | |
| parent | jump label: Add work around to i386 gcc asm goto bug (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-169ed55bd30305b933f52bfab32a58671d44ab68.tar.xz linux-dev-169ed55bd30305b933f52bfab32a58671d44ab68.zip | |
Merge branch 'tip/perf/jump-label-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..490aa1efc4ae --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +What: raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire) +Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + /dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level + access to FireWire buses. Its major drawbacks were its inability + to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level + of abstraction that required userspace clients do duplicate much + of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality. + Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of + firewire-core. + +Users: + libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI + users) |