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authorJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>2019-10-02 10:48:44 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-04 17:56:27 +0200
commit3079b54aa9a0f0432b88a52e205cfa3486898330 (patch)
tree14aedc5233560b1fd70facef3adefa54500f903d /drivers/misc
parent780ee709bdb49c0d3562890855d7ff7919e64075 (diff)
eeprom: Warn that the driver is deprecated
Deprecating the driver in Kconfig is one thing, but we also need to let the users themselves know. Log a warning each time a device is bound to the deprecated eeprom driver. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191002104844.1dc4d8f3@endymion Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom.c b/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom.c
index 2cfe3d4ae144..226b5efa6a77 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom.c
@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ static int eeprom_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
}
}
+ /* Let the users know they are using deprecated driver */
+ dev_notice(&client->dev,
+ "eeprom driver is deprecated, please use at24 instead\n");
+
/* create the sysfs eeprom file */
return sysfs_create_bin_file(&client->dev.kobj, &eeprom_attr);
}