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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: Guoqing Jiang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <[email protected]>
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drivers/md/Kconfig

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@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ config MD_AUTODETECT
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If unsure, say Y.
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config MD_LINEAR
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tristate "Linear (append) mode"
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tristate "Linear (append) mode (deprecated)"
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depends on BLK_DEV_MD
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help
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If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
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If unsure, say Y.
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config MD_MULTIPATH
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tristate "Multipath I/O support"
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tristate "Multipath I/O support (deprecated)"
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depends on BLK_DEV_MD
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help
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MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use
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If unsure, say N.
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config MD_FAULTY
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tristate "Faulty test module for MD"
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tristate "Faulty test module for MD (deprecated)"
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depends on BLK_DEV_MD
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help
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The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns

drivers/md/md-faulty.c

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module_init(raid_init);
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module_exit(raid_exit);
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MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Fault injection personality for MD");
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MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Fault injection personality for MD (deprecated)");
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MODULE_ALIAS("md-personality-10"); /* faulty */
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MODULE_ALIAS("md-faulty");
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MODULE_ALIAS("md-level--5");

drivers/md/md-linear.c

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module_init(linear_init);
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module_exit(linear_exit);
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MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linear device concatenation personality for MD");
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MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linear device concatenation personality for MD (deprecated)");
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MODULE_ALIAS("md-personality-1"); /* LINEAR - deprecated*/
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MODULE_ALIAS("md-linear");
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MODULE_ALIAS("md-level--1");

drivers/md/md-multipath.c

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module_init(multipath_init);
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module_exit(multipath_exit);
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MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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MODULE_DESCRIPTION("simple multi-path personality for MD");
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MODULE_DESCRIPTION("simple multi-path personality for MD (deprecated)");
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MODULE_ALIAS("md-personality-7"); /* MULTIPATH */
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MODULE_ALIAS("md-multipath");
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MODULE_ALIAS("md-level--4");

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