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>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig
index f2abe27..0f791bf 100644 (file)
--- 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.