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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2018 08:52:14 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>,  Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>,  "freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org>,  Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>,  FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>,  "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers
Message-ID:  <20181004155355.6C2A51571@spqr.komquats.com>

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I have rl, fxp, xl, dc, bge (which I have an uncommitted patch for), nfe, a=
nd sk. Not all are scheduled for removal but this is my inventory for which=
 I can test and am willing to help out with. Add iwn and ath too.

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Cy Schubert
<Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> or <cy@freebsd.org>
The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Macklem
Sent: 04/10/2018 07:41
To: Warner Losh; Alexey Dokuchaev
Cc: FreeBSD Net; freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org; Brooks Davis; FreeBSD-STABLE Mail=
ing List; freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

Warner Losh wrote:
[lots of stuff snipped]
>That's why that one way to get the driver off the list is to convert to
>iflib. That greatly reduces the burden by centralizing all the stupid,
>common things of a driver so that we only have to change one place, not
>dozens.

I can probably do this for bfe and fxp, since I have both.
Can someone suggest a good example driver that has already been converted,
so I can see what needs to be done?

Again, I don't care if they stay in the current/head tree.

[more stuff snipped]

rick

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