Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 19:11:21 +0000 From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: "Brooks Davis" <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@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: <06ACF82E-4072-40B1-9ECF-A0DBDD23A11B@lists.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <20180523182010.GB58848@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <201805082114.w48LETM3060105@repo.freebsd.org> <20180523174117.GO71675@FreeBSD.org> <20180523182010.GB58848@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On 23 May 2018, at 18:20, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:41:17AM -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >> On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:14:29PM +0000, Sean Bruno wrote: >> S> Log: >> S> nxge(4): >> S> Remove nxge(4) and associated man page and tools in FreeBSD >> 12.0. >> ... >> S> +20180508: >> S> + The nxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for PCI-X >> 10g >> S> + cards made by s2io/Neterion. The company was aquired by Exar >> and >> S> + no longer sells or supports Ethernet products. If you have >> device >> S> + nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed. >> S> + >> >> 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? > > It's probably a good idea to add deprecation notices for them now and > merge for 11 to find out which ones still have users. Someone on IRC > mentioned that FreeNAS removed them and ended up restoring one, but I > don't remember which one it was. > > My gut feeling is that we're a bit late in the game for doing a mass > removal for 12, but we should definitely do so for 13. I’d be very careful. I can still buy a lot of 100Mbit/s cards and you constantly find them on new SoCs still which don’t do Gbit/s. Also there’s a lot of legacy hw floating around for some of them. 12 definitively seems to be too short term. /bz
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