Commit 3079b54a authored Oct 02, 2019 by Jean Delvare Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Oct 04, 2019

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>

parent 780ee709

drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom.c

+4 −0

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		@@ -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);
		}

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