1What:		raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire)
2Date:		May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37
3Contact:	linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
4Description:
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 to duplicate much
9	of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality.
10
11	Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of
12	firewire-core.
13
14Users:
15	libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI
16	users)
17