[PATCH] uio: pruss: Deprecate use of this driver

From: Andrew Davis
Date: Mon Mar 25 2024 - 17:02:01 EST


This UIO driver was used to control the PRU processors found on various
TI SoCs. It was created before the Remoteproc framework, but now with
that we have a standard way to program and manage the PRU processors.
The proper PRU Remoteproc driver should be used instead of this driver.
Mark this driver deprecated.

The userspace tools to use this are no longer available, so also remove
those dead links from the Kconfig description.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Davis <afd@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/uio/Kconfig | 10 ++--------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/Kconfig b/drivers/uio/Kconfig
index 2e16c5338e5b1..358dc2d19b885 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/uio/Kconfig
@@ -126,19 +126,13 @@ config UIO_FSL_ELBC_GPCM_NETX5152
http://www.hilscher.com/netx

config UIO_PRUSS
- tristate "Texas Instruments PRUSS driver"
+ tristate "Texas Instruments PRUSS driver (DEPRECATED)"
select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA
help
PRUSS driver for OMAPL138/DA850/AM18XX devices
- PRUSS driver requires user space components, examples and user space
- driver is available from below SVN repo - you may use anonymous login

- https://gforge.ti.com/gf/project/pru_sw/
-
- More info on API is available at below wiki
-
- http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/PRU_Linux_Application_Loader
+ This driver is deprecated, replaced by PRU_REMOTEPROC.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called uio_pruss.
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