Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 20:44:21 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: rgrimes@freebsd.org, 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: <034afbd6-a83a-b753-15fa-5f42eba24b51@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201805231814.w4NIExZ9036362@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201805231814.w4NIExZ9036362@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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Am 23.05.18 um 20:14 schrieb Rodney W. Grimes: >> 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. AFAIK and FWIW: ed(4), le(4) on amd64 and on i386 (ISA and PCI) ex(4), ep(4) on i386 (ISA and PCcard) Regards, STefan
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