[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>
diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
index 39ba640..80969f7 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
@@ -376,6 +376,7 @@
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 @@
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;