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Tip revision: 19c329f6808995b142b3966301f217c831e7cf31 authored by Linus Torvalds on 18 January 2021, 00:37:05 UTC
Linux 5.11-rc4
Tip revision: 19c329f
raw1394
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)
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