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i2c: Inform about deprecated chips directory

The chips directory under drivers/i2c is deprecated. Spread the word!

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

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Wolfram Sang and committed by
Jean Delvare
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drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig
··· 1 1 # 2 2 # Miscellaneous I2C chip drivers configuration 3 3 # 4 + # *** DEPRECATED! Do not add new entries! See Makefile *** 5 + # 4 6 5 7 menu "Miscellaneous I2C Chip support" 6 8
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drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile
··· 1 1 # 2 2 # Makefile for miscellaneous I2C chip drivers. 3 3 # 4 - # Think twice before you add a new driver to this directory. 4 + # Do not add new drivers to this directory! It is DEPRECATED. 5 + # 5 6 # Device drivers are better grouped according to the functionality they 6 7 # implement rather than to the bus they are connected to. In particular: 7 8 # * Hardware monitoring chip drivers go to drivers/hwmon