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| author | Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> | 2010-03-10 15:21:26 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-12 15:52:32 -0800 |
| commit | cc8b82f8c80e8b9e212e0102ee7af9972829e45c (patch) | |
| tree | 7ab8d18d8aba141dd8f98b29f95d05d8ddb662e8 /drivers | |
| parent | c1c341a060da1bd66a1982198b1a99765b07b8a2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cc8b82f8c80e8b9e212e0102ee7af9972829e45c.tar.bz2 | |
viafb: deprecate private ioctls
Print a warning when viafb ioctls are called. Those should not be used as
their exact meaning is sometimes unknown and they in parts duplicate
functionality present in the framebuffer interface.
There is no known user of these ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Cc: Scott Fang <ScottFang@viatech.com.cn>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c index 3028e7ddc3b5..156a900aa884 100644 --- a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c +++ b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c @@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ static int viafb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, u_int cmd, u_long arg) u32 gpu32; DEBUG_MSG(KERN_INFO "viafb_ioctl: 0x%X !!\n", cmd); + printk(KERN_WARNING "viafb_ioctl: Please avoid this interface as it is unstable and might change or vanish at any time!\n"); memset(&u, 0, sizeof(u)); switch (cmd) { |