[PATCH] USB: serial: generic driver is only for testing

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Make some noise during probe to make sure the users
are aware of the intended purpose of this driver.

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
---
Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Looks good to me, I'll go make this change, care to provide a
> Signed-off-by: for it?

OK. Like this then?

Although I believe you are just as responsible for this as me, since I
sto^H^H^Hborrowed part of the text from your mail.  But I understand
that you are working too much and need to hide some of it :-)

Bjørn

 drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
index 130a573..0d9f512 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
@@ -845,6 +845,8 @@ static int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
 			module_put(type->driver.owner);
 			return -EIO;
 		}
+		dev_info(&interface->dev, "\"generic\" usb-serial driver is only for testing and one-off prototypes\n");
+		dev_info(&interface->dev, "tell linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to add your device to a proper driver\n");
 	}
 #endif
 	if (!num_ports) {
-- 
1.7.10

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