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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2018 13:08:40 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        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:  <20180523180840.GA27444@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180523174117.GO71675@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201805082114.w48LETM3060105@repo.freebsd.org> <20180523174117.GO71675@FreeBSD.org>

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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.

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.

mcl



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