hwmon: Deprecate the fscher and fscpos drivers

Now that the new merged fschmd driver has gained support for the watchdog
integrated into these IC's, there is no more reason to keep the old fscher
and fscpos drivers around, so mark them as deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Hans de Goede 2009-01-07 16:37:33 +01:00 committed by Jean Delvare
parent 97950c3d42
commit 0589c2de64
2 changed files with 22 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -318,6 +318,14 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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What: fscher and fscpos drivers
When: June 2009
Why: Deprecated by the new fschmd driver.
Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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What: SELinux "compat_net" functionality What: SELinux "compat_net" functionality
When: 2.6.30 at the earliest When: 2.6.30 at the earliest
Why: In 2.6.18 the Secmark concept was introduced to replace the "compat_net" Why: In 2.6.18 the Secmark concept was introduced to replace the "compat_net"

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@ -305,9 +305,13 @@ config SENSORS_F75375S
will be called f75375s. will be called f75375s.
config SENSORS_FSCHER config SENSORS_FSCHER
tristate "FSC Hermes" tristate "FSC Hermes (DEPRECATED)"
depends on X86 && I2C depends on X86 && I2C
help help
This driver is DEPRECATED please use the new merged fschmd
("FSC Poseidon, Scylla, Hermes, Heimdall and Heracles") driver
instead.
If you say yes here you get support for Fujitsu Siemens If you say yes here you get support for Fujitsu Siemens
Computers Hermes sensor chips. Computers Hermes sensor chips.
@ -315,9 +319,13 @@ config SENSORS_FSCHER
will be called fscher. will be called fscher.
config SENSORS_FSCPOS config SENSORS_FSCPOS
tristate "FSC Poseidon" tristate "FSC Poseidon (DEPRECATED)"
depends on X86 && I2C depends on X86 && I2C
help help
This driver is DEPRECATED please use the new merged fschmd
("FSC Poseidon, Scylla, Hermes, Heimdall and Heracles") driver
instead.
If you say yes here you get support for Fujitsu Siemens If you say yes here you get support for Fujitsu Siemens
Computers Poseidon sensor chips. Computers Poseidon sensor chips.
@ -326,15 +334,15 @@ config SENSORS_FSCPOS
config SENSORS_FSCHMD config SENSORS_FSCHMD
tristate "FSC Poseidon, Scylla, Hermes, Heimdall and Heracles" tristate "FSC Poseidon, Scylla, Hermes, Heimdall and Heracles"
depends on X86 && I2C && EXPERIMENTAL depends on X86 && I2C
help help
If you say yes here you get support for various Fujitsu Siemens If you say yes here you get support for various Fujitsu Siemens
Computers sensor chips, including support for the integrated Computers sensor chips, including support for the integrated
watchdog. watchdog.
This is a new merged driver for FSC sensor chips which is intended This is a merged driver for FSC sensor chips replacing the fscpos,
as a replacement for the fscpos, fscscy and fscher drivers and adds fscscy and fscher drivers and adding support for several other FSC
support for several other FCS sensor chips. sensor chips.
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called fschmd. will be called fschmd.