Merge pull request #10357 from pytest-dev/backport-10331-to-7.1.x

[7.1.x] Add note in documentation to help modernize code bases to use pathlib

doc/en/how-to/tmp_path.rst

@@ -109,6 +109,17 @@ rather than standard :class:`pathlib.Path` objects.
 .. note::
     These days, it is preferred to use ``tmp_path`` and ``tmp_path_factory``.
 
+    In order to help modernize old code bases, one can run pytest with the legacypath
+    plugin disabled:
+
+    .. code-block:: bash
+
+        pytest -p no:legacypath
+
+    This will trigger errors on tests using the legacy paths.
+    It can also be permanently set as part of the :confval:`addopts` parameter in the
+    config file.
+
 See :fixture:`tmpdir <tmpdir>` :fixture:`tmpdir_factory <tmpdir_factory>`
 API for details.