Commit 608f52e3 authored by Guoqing Jiang's avatar Guoqing Jiang Committed by Song Liu
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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: default avatarGuoqing Jiang <jiangguoqing@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSong Liu <song@kernel.org>
parent 528bc2cf

drivers/md/Kconfig

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@@ -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

drivers/md/md-faulty.c

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@@ -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");

drivers/md/md-linear.c

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@@ -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");

drivers/md/md-multipath.c

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@@ -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");