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Commit af4981fc authored by Jes Sorensen's avatar Jes Sorensen Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: rtl8723au: Add warning about this driver being deprecated


This driver is deprecated and superseded by rtl8xxxu. It will be
removed in a future kernel release.

Add a warning to Kconfig and at device init time to notify users and
allow them time to switch over.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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config R8723AU
tristate "Realtek RTL8723AU Wireless LAN NIC driver"
tristate "Realtek RTL8723AU Wireless LAN NIC driver (deprecated)"
depends on USB && WLAN && RFKILL
select WIRELESS_EXT
select WEXT_PRIV
......@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ config R8723AU
default n
---help---
This option adds the Realtek RTL8723AU USB device such as found in
the Lenovo Yogi 13 tablet. If built as a module, it will be called r8723au.
the Lenovo Yoga 13 tablet. If built as a module, it will be called r8723au.
Note: This driver is deprecated and scheduled to be removed in a
future kernel release. Please use rtl8xxxu instead.
if R8723AU
......
......@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ static int rtw_drv_init(struct usb_interface *pusb_intf,
{
struct rtw_adapter *if1 = NULL;
struct dvobj_priv *dvobj;
struct usb_device *udev;
int status = _FAIL;
RT_TRACE(_module_hci_intfs_c_, _drv_err_, "+rtw_drv_init\n");
......@@ -544,6 +545,10 @@ static int rtw_drv_init(struct usb_interface *pusb_intf,
goto exit;
}
udev = dvobj->pusbdev;
dev_warn(&udev->dev, "WARNING: The rtl8723au driver is deprecated!");
dev_warn(&udev->dev, "Please use the rtl8xxxu driver for this device!");
if1 = rtw_usb_if1_init(dvobj, pusb_intf, pdid);
if (!if1) {
DBG_8723A("rtw_init_primary_adapter Failed!\n");
......
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