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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2018 11:21:03 -0500
From:      Kevin Day <kevin@your.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        luciano@vespaperitivo.it, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers
Message-ID:  <43356262-A30B-4B4E-AB81-DE79DB985806@your.org>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrP6AhgA6spJKFfOKD9dyYLc3yjzbw872hY-rWQ-0UNeA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20181003210516.GA71565@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <45c44128-85cb-5b4c-3af3-cbdf1560c9be@grosbein.net> <42Qt573dbmz1ftWT@baobab.bilink.it> <CANCZdfrP6AhgA6spJKFfOKD9dyYLc3yjzbw872hY-rWQ-0UNeA@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Oct 4, 2018, at 7:58 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>=20
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 6:53 AM Luciano Mannucci =
<luciano@vespaperitivo.it>
> wrote:
>=20
>>> While I have no objection for general direction, I have doubts about
>> removal
>>> of ste(4) and especially rl(4). These are cheap 100Mbit VERY popular =
NICs
>>> sold in enourmous values in certain markets by vendors like D-Link =
and
>>> TP-Link using various trade names.
>>=20
>=20
> Enough people are using rl that it's off the list by my count.

If you need any extra data, rl is the only one that I'd be sad to lose =
as well. We have a lot of embedded devices that are still shipping today =
with rl chips. I could chip in a little to sponsor someone to modernize =
the driver if needed.





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