From 7396bd9fa1f291423b6e9a262662a447cc3deb86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:59:36 +0100 Subject: usb/ub: deprecate & schedule for removal the "Low Performance USB Block" driver Deprecate this driver. All devices which can be handled by this driver can also be handled by the usb-storage driver. Acked-By: Pete Zaitcev Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/block/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/block/ub.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/block') diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig index 4e4c8a4a5fd3..a796407123c7 100644 --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_SX8 Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M. config BLK_DEV_UB - tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver" + tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver (deprecated)" depends on USB help This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices diff --git a/drivers/block/ub.c b/drivers/block/ub.c index 298ac75ac8e5..fcec0225ac76 100644 --- a/drivers/block/ub.c +++ b/drivers/block/ub.c @@ -2440,6 +2440,8 @@ static int __init ub_init(void) int rc; int i; + pr_info("'Low Performance USB Block' driver is deprecated. " + "Please switch to usb-storage\n"); for (i = 0; i < UB_QLOCK_NUM; i++) spin_lock_init(&ub_qlockv[i]); -- cgit v1.2.3