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>
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 2193be5..5ddbe35 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -318,6 +318,14 @@
---------------------------
+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>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: SELinux "compat_net" functionality
When: 2.6.30 at the earliest
Why: In 2.6.18 the Secmark concept was introduced to replace the "compat_net"
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
index 9197514..3c34fb5 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
@@ -305,9 +305,13 @@
will be called f75375s.
config SENSORS_FSCHER
- tristate "FSC Hermes"
+ tristate "FSC Hermes (DEPRECATED)"
depends on X86 && I2C
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
Computers Hermes sensor chips.
@@ -315,9 +319,13 @@
will be called fscher.
config SENSORS_FSCPOS
- tristate "FSC Poseidon"
+ tristate "FSC Poseidon (DEPRECATED)"
depends on X86 && I2C
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
Computers Poseidon sensor chips.
@@ -326,15 +334,15 @@
config SENSORS_FSCHMD
tristate "FSC Poseidon, Scylla, Hermes, Heimdall and Heracles"
- depends on X86 && I2C && EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on X86 && I2C
help
If you say yes here you get support for various Fujitsu Siemens
Computers sensor chips, including support for the integrated
watchdog.
- This is a new merged driver for FSC sensor chips which is intended
- as a replacement for the fscpos, fscscy and fscher drivers and adds
- support for several other FCS sensor chips.
+ This is a merged driver for FSC sensor chips replacing the fscpos,
+ fscscy and fscher drivers and adding support for several other FSC
+ sensor chips.
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called fschmd.
