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authorDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>2005-09-13 01:25:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-13 08:22:27 -0700
commitc352ec8ab87b065cd2edda171811f49ac7d0d5cd (patch)
treef7efa2c669b314687dafa74a6d6082a19d4bc7a7 /drivers
parentdb84502b0229ed3075ca74b7d34eb8c609de3200 (diff)
downloadlinux-c352ec8ab87b065cd2edda171811f49ac7d0d5cd.tar.bz2
[PATCH] pcmcia: warn on IOCTL usage
More visible user information of scheduled feature removal. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
index 39ba6406fd54..80969f7e7a0b 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
@@ -376,6 +376,7 @@ static int ds_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
socket_t i = iminor(inode);
struct pcmcia_socket *s;
user_info_t *user;
+ static int warning_printed = 0;
ds_dbg(0, "ds_open(socket %d)\n", i);
@@ -407,6 +408,17 @@ static int ds_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
s->user = user;
file->private_data = user;
+ if (!warning_printed) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl "
+ "usage.\n");
+ printk(KERN_INFO "pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from "
+ "the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade "
+ "to new tools.\n");
+ printk(KERN_INFO "pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/"
+ "utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.\n");
+ warning_printed = 1;
+ }
+
if (s->pcmcia_state.present)
queue_event(user, CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION);
return 0;