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 <[email protected]> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- linux-5.2.orig/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom.c 2019-07-08 00:41:56.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-5.2/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom.c 2019-10-02 10:46:23.363974060 +0200 @@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ static int eeprom_probe(struct i2c_clien } } + /* 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); } -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
