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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>2012-03-15 21:59:36 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-03-16 13:30:10 -0700
commit7396bd9fa1f291423b6e9a262662a447cc3deb86 (patch)
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parent4bf34b8c6b10a154a7fb1fc20818e20a27d4a539 (diff)
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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 <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/Kconfig2
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/ub.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 4e4c8a4..a796407 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 298ac75..fcec022 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]);
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