From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eeprom: Deprecate the legacy eeprom driver
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 09:57:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190904075729.GA22307@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190902104838.058725c2@endymion>
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 10:48:38AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 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>
> ---
> drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
You might also want to add a big printk() message when the driver is
loaded that it shouldn't be used.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-04 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-02 8:48 [PATCH] eeprom: Deprecate the legacy eeprom driver Jean Delvare
2019-09-04 7:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-09-06 14:50 ` Jean Delvare
2019-09-06 16:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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