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1*4882a593SmuzhiyunWhat:		raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire)
2*4882a593SmuzhiyunDate:		May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37
3*4882a593SmuzhiyunContact:	linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
4*4882a593SmuzhiyunDescription:
5*4882a593Smuzhiyun	/dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level
6*4882a593Smuzhiyun	access to FireWire buses.  Its major drawbacks were its inability
7*4882a593Smuzhiyun	to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level
8*4882a593Smuzhiyun	of abstraction that required userspace clients to duplicate much
9*4882a593Smuzhiyun	of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality.
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11*4882a593Smuzhiyun	Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of
12*4882a593Smuzhiyun	firewire-core.
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14*4882a593SmuzhiyunUsers:
15*4882a593Smuzhiyun	libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI
16*4882a593Smuzhiyun	users)
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