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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:44:57 GMT
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-branches@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 67835f14aa68 - stable/13 - le(4): deprecate and mark for removal before 15.0
Message-ID:  <202307202044.36KKivoo035819@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch stable/13 has been updated by brooks:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=67835f14aa6839b3bc321ecbbfa2e74e389b2879

commit 67835f14aa6839b3bc321ecbbfa2e74e389b2879
Author:     Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-06-21 23:50:12 +0000
Commit:     Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-07-20 20:41:24 +0000

    le(4): deprecate and mark for removal before 15.0
    
    We kept le(4) in the pre-12.0 purge because it was needed for Qemu/MIPS
    (virtio networking didn't work) but the MIPS port has been removed.
    
    Reviewed by:    emaste
    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40683
    
    (cherry picked from commit b95d2237af403049d48c23229aa8bace3594970e)
---
 share/man/man4/le.4 | 8 +++++++-
 sys/dev/le/lance.c  | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man4/le.4 b/share/man/man4/le.4
index 2c7f9cc3e55e..58a6826bb03f 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/le.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/le.4
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 .\"	from: @(#)le.4	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 26, 2020
+.Dd June 21, 2023
 .Dt LE 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ numbers have to be specified in
 .Cd hint.le.0.port="0x280"
 .Cd hint.le.0.irq="10"
 .Cd hint.le.0.drq="0"
+.Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE
+The
+.Nm
+driver may not be present in
+.Fx 15.0
+and later.
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm
diff --git a/sys/dev/le/lance.c b/sys/dev/le/lance.c
index e4ff97b824e2..18786dd919a0 100644
--- a/sys/dev/le/lance.c
+++ b/sys/dev/le/lance.c
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ lance_attach(struct lance_softc *sc)
 	ifp->if_hdrlen = sizeof(struct ether_vlan_header);
 	ifp->if_capabilities |= IFCAP_VLAN_MTU;
 	ifp->if_capenable |= IFCAP_VLAN_MTU;
+
+	gone_in(15, "le: 10/100 NIC no longer needed for Qemu/MIPS");
 }
 
 void



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