| 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 to 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) |