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authorJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>2019-09-02 11:48:38 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-09-04 10:57:35 +0300
commitc165d8947bc41ebd3b0de3f520490cffb627af90 (patch)
tree6af9f1442615eefe14ffd7ae8c0c25fbcee35004 /drivers/misc
parentb8bf2681dce1105e9d30bfcc17abf1bb444b0ccf (diff)
downloadlinux-c165d8947bc41ebd3b0de3f520490cffb627af90.tar.xz
eeprom: Deprecate the legacy eeprom driver
Time has come to get rid of the old eeprom driver. The at24 driver should be used instead. So mark the eeprom driver as deprecated and give users some time to migrate. Then we can remove the legacy eeprom driver completely. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190902104838.058725c2@endymion Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig
index f2abe27010ef..0f791bfdc1f5 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig
@@ -45,13 +45,16 @@ config EEPROM_AT25
will be called at25.
config EEPROM_LEGACY
- tristate "Old I2C EEPROM reader"
+ tristate "Old I2C EEPROM reader (DEPRECATED)"
depends on I2C && SYSFS
help
If you say yes here you get read-only access to the EEPROM data
available on modern memory DIMMs and Sony Vaio laptops via I2C. Such
EEPROMs could theoretically be available on other devices as well.
+ This driver is deprecated and will be removed soon, please use the
+ better at24 driver instead.
+
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called eeprom.