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Hi!
I need some help: I nead to use raw devices (/dev/raw/raw*) with kernel 2.6 series...
with devfs I have no ploblem, but now... I can't create /dev/raw
I have installed a slackware 10.
What is your output for :
cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i raw
[edit]
from kernel config help, I see CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER is marked as obsolete :
The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN.
Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O.
See the raw(8) manpage for more details.
The raw driver is deprecated and may be removed from 2.7
kernels. Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1) x with the O_DIRECT flag.
CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m
# CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW is not set
CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER=y
CONFIG_MAX_RAW_DEVS=256
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m
rc.hotplug is enabled...
The use of this dev is obsolete: now, to communicate direct to disk, it can be used O_DIRECT directive.
But this directive must be included into source code (with open()) and I can't modify it...
Sure... sysfs is mounted and rc.udev is started at boot...
I'll try to ricompile with raw dev as module....
I think there's some misconfiguration in udev... baut I don't know how to solve this problem...
Thx for your help!
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