Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 11:14:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r333388 - in head: . share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/nxge sys/modules sys/modules/nxge tools/kerneldoc/subsys tools/tools tools/tools/nxge usr.sbin/bsdconfig/share Message-ID: <201805231814.w4NIExZ9036362@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20180523180840.GA27444@lonesome.com>
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> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:41:17AM -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > > If end of sales and support is enough to remove 10g driver from the kernel, > > can we please delete all 10Mbit, 100Mbit 10+ year old drivers from the kernel? > > Depends on how many existing users we want to screw over. Not everyone > replaces all their hardware every 2 years, folks. And some of us buy 2 year old hardware because it is cheap, and serves our needs just fine. Even 8 year old servers make usable machines today. > The difference is that the Exar chips failed in the marketplace; very > few seem to have made it out into the wild. > > Given, 10Mbit-only things are way past their sell-by date. Do we even have any 10Mbit only drivers? I think that all the 10mbit drivers also support 100mbit devices, but maybe there are some odd cases I cant remeber. I do agree that we need to be very carefull about killing "dead wood", and have advocated proper notice as a first order to helping with that. I think we also need to be able to back track if we find we have made a mistake. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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