Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:40:13 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <99B70734-2E98-4E3D-AB22-583621A20C86@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Nov 20, 2014, at 13:31, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > I'm >< close to removing timeout/untimeout from the tree. As part of this I > have updated several older drivers to use callout(9), but most of those > patches were untested. Keeping old code around that no one uses does add > future work as tree-wide API changes are made as well as things like locking > (note that several of these drivers weren't locked until I recently changed > them). To that end, here is my short list of things that I think we can bid > farewell to in 11. Note that many of these are for ISA devices. … > si(4): This is a driver for an older ISA/EISA/PCI multiport serial card. > It doesn't use bus_space. It was hacked up to use new tty, but > still uses Giant. I have a partial set of outstanding patches to > this to fix it to use bus_space, but when I sent them out for > testing on current and stable, no one replied. Please remove usr.sbin/sicontrol as well if this gets removed: OLD_FILES+=usr/sbin/sicontrol OLD_FILES+=usr/share/man/man8/sicontrol.8.gz ... > spic(4): At one point the Sony VAIO was "the" cool laptop, and this driver > controlled the "jogdial" found on it and presented it as a mouse. > This is a tiny driver and is less invasive in terms of future > maintenance than others perhaps, but my recent calls for testing > on current@ and stable@ found no takers. It's a fairly obscure > device and not one that exists on any recently shipped hardware. Handling of this driver might need to be removed from moused/devd (there’s a reference to moused at the bottom of the manpage, but a cursory grep reveals nothing for “sony" or "spic"… hmm). Thanks! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUdlbNAAoJEMZr5QU6S73ejzsH/A+VA8XAtdELnaVnlaqXRhlj e0/m636UWeHJqVxq+oYyID6ceXE+os9ikQVEN2Uf6Vyx9Q7oekLjSzUBjZ8eV8TD BMHnZVwaAI4SGA78UHVs4CLdPWvrzmV7lqpfSTbKnPCfrf/tivqWhXfJyqYCyu+X lpYMYQ4z1YjvNInx+a3hThpkMllbLCIlbj36SS54qDXZZNUdSlJhGV53LqyCW9Kx hGPeFLC4VLsVRPdsPSZPK5/aAmzI0oj3YXxqfFfMJo7cwswGXDc7nRfsQZmqixev fYtm1V9yJqTsHrs9Sz4bVL4EbDf7/oq0fakN6zH2JSZvSoxJQRC+IM5BktoYBvg= =SGZZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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