Commit c165d894 authored by Jean Delvare's avatar Jean Delvare Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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: default avatarJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190902104838.058725c2@endymionSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent b8bf2681
...@@ -45,13 +45,16 @@ config EEPROM_AT25 ...@@ -45,13 +45,16 @@ config EEPROM_AT25
will be called at25. will be called at25.
config EEPROM_LEGACY config EEPROM_LEGACY
tristate "Old I2C EEPROM reader" tristate "Old I2C EEPROM reader (DEPRECATED)"
depends on I2C && SYSFS depends on I2C && SYSFS
help help
If you say yes here you get read-only access to the EEPROM data 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 available on modern memory DIMMs and Sony Vaio laptops via I2C. Such
EEPROMs could theoretically be available on other devices as well. 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 This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called eeprom. will be called eeprom.
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