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 8*6ffe1ffbSSean M. Collins of abstraction that required userspace clients to duplicate much 966fa12c5SStefan Richter of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality. 1066fa12c5SStefan Richter Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of 1166fa12c5SStefan Richter firewire-core. 1266fa12c5SStefan Richter 1366fa12c5SStefan RichterUsers: 1466fa12c5SStefan Richter libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI 1566fa12c5SStefan Richter users) 16