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-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig
index f2abe27010ef..0f791bfdc1f5 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig
@@ -45,13 +45,16 @@ config EEPROM_AT25
will be called at25.
config EEPROM_LEGACY
- tristate "Old I2C EEPROM reader"
+ tristate "Old I2C EEPROM reader (DEPRECATED)"
depends on I2C && SYSFS
help
If you say yes here you get read-only access to the EEPROM data
available on modern memory DIMMs and Sony Vaio laptops via I2C. Such
EEPROMs could theoretically be available on other devices as well.
+ This driver is deprecated and will be removed soon, please use the
+ better at24 driver instead.
+
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called eeprom.