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| author |   Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> | 2019-09-02 10:48:38 +0200 |
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| committer |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-09-04 09:57:35 +0200 |
| commit | c165d8947bc41ebd3b0de3f520490cffb627af90 (patch) | |
| tree | 6af9f1442615eefe14ffd7ae8c0c25fbcee35004 /drivers/misc | |
| parent | Merge tag 'fpga-dfl-for-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mdf/linux-fpga into char-misc-next (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-c165d8947bc41ebd3b0de3f520490cffb627af90.tar.xz linux-dev-c165d8947bc41ebd3b0de3f520490cffb627af90.zip | |
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/Kconfig | 5 |
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. |