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