Updated as follows, the driver name is left unchanged, while
Kconfig and Documentation are modified so that
1. mark it as deprecated
2. exclusive selection of SENSOR_PCA9539 and GPIO_PCA9539
>From c58dc1119355dc94d80763aef9d9bc999abda6df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: eric miao <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:40:04 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] gpiolib: mark drivers/i2c/chips/pca9539.c as deprecated
use drivers/gpio/pca9539.c instead.
Signed-off-by: eric miao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ben Gardner <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/i2c/chips/pca9539 | 3 +++
drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 7 +++++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/chips/pca9539 b/Documentation/i2c/chips/pca9539
index c4fce6a..1d81c53 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/chips/pca9539
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/chips/pca9539
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
Kernel driver pca9539
=====================
+NOTE: this driver is deprecated and will be dropped soon, use
+drivers/gpio/pca9539.c instead.
+
Supported chips:
* Philips PCA9539
Prefix: 'pca9539'
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig b/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig
index 2e1c24f..54fd302 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ config SENSORS_PCF8574
hardware. If unsure, say N.
config SENSORS_PCA9539
- tristate "Philips PCA9539 16-bit I/O port"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ tristate "Philips PCA9539 16-bit I/O port (DEPRECATED)"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !GPIO_PCA9539
help
If you say yes here you get support for the Philips PCA9539
16-bit I/O port.
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ config SENSORS_PCA9539
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called pca9539.
+ This driver is deprecated and will be dropped soon. Use
+ drivers/gpio/pca9539.c instead.
+
config SENSORS_PCF8591
tristate "Philips PCF8591"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
--
1.5.2.5.GIT
Cheers
- eric
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