166fa12c5SStefan RichterWhat: raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire) 266fa12c5SStefan RichterDate: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 366fa12c5SStefan RichterContact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 466fa12c5SStefan RichterDescription: 566fa12c5SStefan Richter /dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level 666fa12c5SStefan Richter access to FireWire buses. Its major drawbacks were its inability 766fa12c5SStefan Richter to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level 86ffe1ffbSSean M. Collins of abstraction that required userspace clients to duplicate much 966fa12c5SStefan Richter of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality. 1054a19b4dSMauro Carvalho Chehab 1166fa12c5SStefan Richter Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of 1266fa12c5SStefan Richter firewire-core. 1366fa12c5SStefan Richter 1466fa12c5SStefan RichterUsers: 1566fa12c5SStefan Richter libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI 1666fa12c5SStefan Richter users) 17