[PATCH V3 8/8] md: mark some personalities as deprecated
From: Guoqing Jiang <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-25 09:48:31
Subsystem:
device-mapper (lvm), software raid (multiple disks) support, the rest · Maintainers:
Alasdair Kergon, Mike Snitzer, Mikulas Patocka, Benjamin Marzinski, Song Liu, Yu Kuai, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- drivers/md/Kconfig | 6 +++--- drivers/md/md-faulty.c | 2 +- drivers/md/md-linear.c | 2 +- drivers/md/md-multipath.c | 2 +- 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");
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