Add Kconfig and runtime deprecation warnings to PARIDE, pointing users to PATA_PARPORT. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/Kconfig | 4 +++- drivers/block/paride/paride.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig index a2184b428493..3a2065c6a4d7 100644 --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ config GDROM You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom. config PARIDE - tristate "Parallel port IDE device support" + tristate "Parallel port IDE device support (DEPRECATED)" depends on PARPORT_PC help There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through @@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ config PARIDE "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol" etc.). + This driver is deprecated, replaced by libata-based PATA_PARPORT. + source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig" source "drivers/block/mtip32xx/Kconfig" diff --git a/drivers/block/paride/paride.c b/drivers/block/paride/paride.c index 0e287993b778..010daf605728 100644 --- a/drivers/block/paride/paride.c +++ b/drivers/block/paride/paride.c @@ -452,6 +452,8 @@ void *pi_register_driver(char *name) struct parport_driver *parp_drv; int ret; + printk(KERN_WARNING "PARIDE is deprecated. Use PATA_PARPORT instead.\n"); + parp_drv = kzalloc(sizeof(*parp_drv), GFP_KERNEL); if (!parp_drv) return NULL; -- Ondrej Zary
