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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This driver is deprecated and superseded by rtl8xxxu.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>
parent 6c3b78aa

drivers/staging/rtl8723au/Kconfig

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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

drivers/staging/rtl8723au/os_dep/usb_intf.c

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@@ -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");