Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:23:48 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>, current@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: deprecation of nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removal from 11-CURRENT Message-ID: <52EFA674.8000106@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <52EFA015.5070601@FreeBSD.org> References: <52EFA015.5070601@FreeBSD.org>
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On 02/03/2014 07:56 AM, Christian Brueffer wrote: > Hi, > > for some time now we have had two drivers for NVIDIA NForce/MCP network > chips, namely nve(4) and nfe(4). > > The former came first and is based on a binary blob. The latter was > later ported from OpenBSD and is blob-free. > > nfe(4) supports all chips nve(4) supports, in addition to all the newer > hardware. In essence, nfe(4) has been the de-facto standard driver for > a long time. nve(4) has been commented out in GENERIC since 2007. > > For this reason I propose deprecating nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removing > it from HEAD. > > Does anyone see a reason not to do this? > > Cheers, > > Christian (wearing my best asbestos suit) > If you're going to be so very polite about it, how do you expect us to have a 2000 email chain fight examining every possible implication of your proposal ... :) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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