The raw driver has been replaced by O_DIRECT support on the block device in 2002.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 <[email protected]> --- Jens, I wonder if we can sneak this into 5.9 to have a longer deprecation period? drivers/char/raw.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/raw.c b/drivers/char/raw.c index 380bf518338ef7..ccf5bd528642da 100644 --- a/drivers/char/raw.c +++ b/drivers/char/raw.c @@ -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); /* -- 2.28.0
