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1 | What: raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire) |
2 | Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 | |
3 | Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net | |
4 | Description: | |
5 | /dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level | |
6 | access to FireWire buses. Its major drawbacks were its inability | |
7 | to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level | |
6ffe1ffb | 8 | of abstraction that required userspace clients to duplicate much |
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9 | of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality. |
10 | Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of | |
11 | firewire-core. | |
12 | ||
13 | Users: | |
14 | libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI | |
15 | users) |