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authorGuoqing Jiang <jgq516@gmail.com>2021-05-25 17:46:23 +0800
committerSong Liu <song@kernel.org>2021-06-14 22:32:07 -0700
commit608f52e30aae7dc8da836e5b7b112d50a2d00e43 (patch)
tree2c5d661f4f1604b7bd249c6bd949c7a64ce35053 /drivers/md
parent528bc2cf2fccef2c2c17263f9932094bf81fee5a (diff)
md: mark some personalities as deprecated
Mark the three personalities (linear, fault and multipath) as deprecated because: 1. people can use dm multipath or nvme multipath. 2. linear is already deprecated in MODULE_ALIAS. 3. no one actively using fault. Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/Kconfig6
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md-faulty.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md-linear.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md-multipath.c2
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
index f2014385d48b..0602e82a9516 100644
--- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ config MD_AUTODETECT
If unsure, say Y.
config MD_LINEAR
- tristate "Linear (append) mode"
+ tristate "Linear (append) mode (deprecated)"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD
help
If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ config MD_RAID456
If unsure, say Y.
config MD_MULTIPATH
- tristate "Multipath I/O support"
+ tristate "Multipath I/O support (deprecated)"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD
help
MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ config MD_MULTIPATH
If unsure, say N.
config MD_FAULTY
- tristate "Faulty test module for MD"
+ tristate "Faulty test module for MD (deprecated)"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD
help
The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns
diff --git a/drivers/md/md-faulty.c b/drivers/md/md-faulty.c
index fda4cb3f936f..c0dc6f2ef4a3 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md-faulty.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md-faulty.c
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static void raid_exit(void)
module_init(raid_init);
module_exit(raid_exit);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Fault injection personality for MD");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Fault injection personality for MD (deprecated)");
MODULE_ALIAS("md-personality-10"); /* faulty */
MODULE_ALIAS("md-faulty");
MODULE_ALIAS("md-level--5");
diff --git a/drivers/md/md-linear.c b/drivers/md/md-linear.c
index 63ed8329a98d..1ff51647a682 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md-linear.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md-linear.c
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static void linear_exit (void)
module_init(linear_init);
module_exit(linear_exit);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linear device concatenation personality for MD");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linear device concatenation personality for MD (deprecated)");
MODULE_ALIAS("md-personality-1"); /* LINEAR - deprecated*/
MODULE_ALIAS("md-linear");
MODULE_ALIAS("md-level--1");
diff --git a/drivers/md/md-multipath.c b/drivers/md/md-multipath.c
index 776bbe542db5..e7d6486f090f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md-multipath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md-multipath.c
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ static void __exit multipath_exit (void)
module_init(multipath_init);
module_exit(multipath_exit);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("simple multi-path personality for MD");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("simple multi-path personality for MD (deprecated)");
MODULE_ALIAS("md-personality-7"); /* MULTIPATH */
MODULE_ALIAS("md-multipath");
MODULE_ALIAS("md-level--4");