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