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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2018 10:41:17 -0700
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sean Bruno <sbruno@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:  <20180523174117.GO71675@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201805082114.w48LETM3060105@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201805082114.w48LETM3060105@repo.freebsd.org>

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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?

-- 
Gleb Smirnoff



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