Re: [PATCH] eeprom: Deprecate the legacy eeprom driver

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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