Some drivers were flagged to remove class based instantiation soon to improve boot-up time. Originally, I was planning for a longer deprecation time so users could switch over to some other kind of instantiation. However, the demand for the speed up is high enough and class based instantiation is used rarely, so the removal takes place now. To make up for the deprecation time, another warning is added to the i2c core pointing out that the behaviour has now changed: + /* Warn that the adapter lost class based instantiation */ + if (adapter->class == I2C_CLASS_DEPRECATED) { + dev_dbg(&adapter->dev, + "This adapter dropped support for I2C classes and " + "won't auto-detect %s devices anymore. If you need it, check " + "'Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices' for alternatives.\n", + driver->driver.name); + return 0; + } A branch can be found here (with two other cleanups -> driver removals): git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux.git i2c/deprecate_stuff I hope this meets all the needs. Please comment, ack, test... Thanks, Wolfram Wolfram Sang (16): i2c: add debug info when class instantiation was dropped i2c: i2c-at91: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-bcm2835: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-bfin-twi: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-davinci: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-designware-platdrv: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-mv64xxx: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-nomadik: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-ocores: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-omap: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-rcar: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-s3c2410: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-sirf: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-stu300: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-tegra: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time i2c: i2c-xiic: Drop class based scanning to improve bootup time drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm2835.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bfin-twi.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-platdrv.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nomadik.c | 8 ++++---- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ocores.c | 12 ++++++------ drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c | 14 +++++++------- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-s3c2410.c | 8 ++++---- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sirf.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-stu300.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c | 12 ++++++------ drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 10 ++++++++++ 16 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) -- 2.0.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html