perl plugin: Deprecated the use of plugin_register() to register data-sets.

[collectd.git] / src / perl.c

diff --git a/src/perl.c b/src/perl.c
index 142e9c0..efd13ab 100644 (file)
--- a/src/perl.c
+++ b/src/perl.c
@@ -1527,6 +1527,9 @@ static XS (Collectd_plugin_register_ds)
 
        dXSARGS;
 
+       log_warn ("Using plugin_register() to register new data-sets is "
+                       "deprecated - add new entries to a custom types.db instead.");
+
        if (2 != items) {
                log_err ("Usage: Collectd::plugin_register_data_set(type, dataset)");
                XSRETURN_EMPTY;