From: Geoff Rehmet <csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 07:57:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add big and ugly warning to users of lpa that
X-Git-Tag: FreeBSD-release/1.1.5~961
X-Git-Url: https://git.subgeniuskitty.com/unix-history/.git/commitdiff_plain/39f9ecc55a129c7bf2a0a28bcfdac2eb5edae9e8

Add big and ugly warning to users of lpa that
they should change to lpt, as lpa will be removed!
---

diff --git a/sys/i386/isa/lpa.c b/sys/i386/isa/lpa.c
index 631dfaefc5..f5c47f0788 100644
--- a/sys/i386/isa/lpa.c
+++ b/sys/i386/isa/lpa.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
  * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
  * SUCH DAMAGE.
  *
- *	$Id: lpa.c,v 1.4 1993/11/25 01:31:40 wollman Exp $
+ *	$Id: lpa.c,v 1.5 1994/02/22 09:04:08 rgrimes Exp $
  */
 
 /*
@@ -178,6 +178,18 @@ lpaprobe(struct isa_device *dvp)
 	u_char	data;
 	u_char	mask;
 	int	i;
+	static	int	warned = 0;
+
+
+	/* Warn users that the lpa driver should no longer be used */
+	if(!warned) {
+		printf("*************************************************\n");
+		printf("WARNING: The lpa driver is now obsolete, and will\n");
+		printf("WARNING: be removed soon.\n");
+		printf("WARNING: Please change your config to use lpt\n");
+		printf("*************************************************\n");
+		warned = 1;
+	}
 
 	status = IO_LPTSIZE;