[LAD] Does some proaudo stuff uses raw linux devices?

Hello all. While configuring kernel, i stucked on option CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER, which enables /dev/raw device section. I suppose, things like linuxsampler or others, hardly working with storage, might utilize this access way for most direct access to samples. Or even in audio recording (only nearly imaginations). Is it so really? While searching in internet to learn about its real status, i got 2 facts: - When raw device is mapped to some hda/sda dev, allowing to use it even bypassing disk's internal cache. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/238798/what-happened-to-dev-raw - Yet i found proposal to remove raw devices support, argumented as these devices have no notable use. http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0505.2/1387.html (but that discussion is sooo old...)