1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c b/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c
index 1d060fd293a3..5e5c11f37b24 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c
@@ -458,6 +458,8 @@ static int __init kvm_devices_init(void)
         if (test_devices_support(total_memory_size) < 0)
                 return -ENODEV;
 
+        pr_warn("The s390-virtio transport is deprecated. Please switch to a modern host providing virtio-ccw.\n");
+
         rc = vmem_add_mapping(total_memory_size, PAGE_SIZE);
         if (rc)
                 return rc;
@@ -482,7 +484,7 @@ static int __init kvm_devices_init(void)
 }
 
 /* code for early console output with virtio_console */
-static __init int early_put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
+static int early_put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
 {
         char scratch[17];
         unsigned int len = count;