^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 1) What: raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 2) Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 3) Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 4) Description:
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 5) /dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 6) access to FireWire buses. Its major drawbacks were its inability
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 7) to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 8) of abstraction that required userspace clients to duplicate much
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 9) of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 10)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 11) Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 12) firewire-core.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 13)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 14) Users:
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 15) libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 16) users)