vfio/amba: Mark for removal

vfio-amba has only been touched to keep up with the rest of the code
base for the past 10 years.  We have no basis to believe that it's
currently tested or used.  Mark it for deprecation.

Reviewed-by: Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250825175807.3264083-2-alex.williamson@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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Alex Williamson 2025-08-25 11:58:00 -06:00
parent 08fb9897f7
commit fd0f75308b
2 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -17,10 +17,13 @@ config VFIO_PLATFORM
If you don't know what to do here, say N.
config VFIO_AMBA
tristate "VFIO support for AMBA devices"
tristate "VFIO support for AMBA devices (DEPRECATED)"
depends on ARM_AMBA || COMPILE_TEST
select VFIO_PLATFORM_BASE
help
The vfio-amba driver is deprecated and will be removed in a
future kernel release.
Support for ARM AMBA devices with VFIO. This is required to make
use of ARM AMBA devices present on the system using the VFIO
framework.

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@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ static int vfio_amba_probe(struct amba_device *adev, const struct amba_id *id)
struct vfio_platform_device *vdev;
int ret;
dev_err_once(&adev->dev, "DEPRECATION: vfio-amba is deprecated and will be removed in a future kernel release\n");
vdev = vfio_alloc_device(vfio_platform_device, vdev, &adev->dev,
&vfio_amba_ops);
if (IS_ERR(vdev))