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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:38:49 +0000
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers
Message-ID:  <YTOPR0101MB18200CECD73A50CDD4BCCBADDDEA0@YTOPR0101MB1820.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpFXs_Ed-gMZnnSs2eAxYh8hdwr-6dh9rpUUPbZXO0hWA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20181003210516.GA71565@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <20181004084411.GA50348@FreeBSD.org>, <CANCZdfpFXs_Ed-gMZnnSs2eAxYh8hdwr-6dh9rpUUPbZXO0hWA@mail.gmail.com>

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Warner Losh wrote:
[lots of stuff snipped]
>That's why that one way to get the driver off the list is to convert to
>iflib. That greatly reduces the burden by centralizing all the stupid,
>common things of a driver so that we only have to change one place, not
>dozens.

I can probably do this for bfe and fxp, since I have both.
Can someone suggest a good example driver that has already been converted,
so I can see what needs to be done?

Again, I don't care if they stay in the current/head tree.

[more stuff snipped]

rick




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