From: Dominik Brodowski More visible user information of scheduled feature removal. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c~pcmcia-warn-on-ioctl-usage drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c --- devel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c~pcmcia-warn-on-ioctl-usage 2005-09-11 12:27:51.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c 2005-09-11 12:29:08.000000000 -0700 @@ -376,6 +376,7 @@ static int ds_open(struct inode *inode, socket_t i = iminor(inode); struct pcmcia_socket *s; user_info_t *user; + static int warning_printed = 0; ds_dbg(0, "ds_open(socket %d)\n", i); @@ -407,6 +408,17 @@ static int ds_open(struct inode *inode, s->user = user; file->private_data = user; + if (!warning_printed) { + printk(KERN_INFO "pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl " + "usage.\n"); + printk(KERN_INFO "pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from " + "the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade " + "to new tools.\n"); + printk(KERN_INFO "pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/" + "utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.\n"); + warning_printed = 1; + } + if (s->pcmcia_state.present) queue_event(user, CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION); return 0; _