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viafb: deprecate private ioctls

Print a warning when viafb ioctls are called. Those should not be used as
their exact meaning is sometimes unknown and they in parts duplicate
functionality present in the framebuffer interface.

There is no known user of these ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Cc: Scott Fang <ScottFang@viatech.com.cn>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Florian Tobias Schandinat and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c
··· 476 476 u32 gpu32; 477 477 478 478 DEBUG_MSG(KERN_INFO "viafb_ioctl: 0x%X !!\n", cmd); 479 + printk(KERN_WARNING "viafb_ioctl: Please avoid this interface as it is unstable and might change or vanish at any time!\n"); 479 480 memset(&u, 0, sizeof(u)); 480 481 481 482 switch (cmd) {