The messages are harmless. They're there to encourage the driver authors to migrate their drivers to a new way of working. In the meantime the drivers still work without any issue.
As the migration plan appears to have been abandoned, a fix to down- grade the warning to a debug message has been added. ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Fix Committed -- dvb-usb error message on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99871 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs