[PATCH] eeprom: Warn that the driver is deprecated

[Jean Delvare]

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 <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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);
 }


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Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support