Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:30:57 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <E6FE2A08-801E-48C7-B454-10FC010D257E@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] tl;dr: kill everything on your list. Notes. On Nov 20, 2014, at 2:31 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > wl(4): This is a driver for an ancient pre-802.11 wireless adapter. It > also includes wlconfig(8). Warner promises he won't test any > patches for this. It's older and slower than wi(4) and that driver > hasn't really worked in years. (One could make the case for axing > an(4) and wi(4) as well, but I'm just pushing for wl(4).) I had this driver working. In FreeBSD 4.2. I discontinued using this card back in the 90’s. I discarded this cards themselves a couple of years ago. It doesn’t interoperate with anything except itself. Comparisons to wi(4) aren’t really relevant.This is ancient hardware, of limited use to all but a few arcane people that hasn’t likely be run in a real system since before the US knew about Monica... > ie(4): Unfortunately, someone actually found one of these and tested it > several years ago when I added locking to it. It is the only ISA > NIC driver that doesn't have a pccard attachment (you can in theory > still use a pccard NIC in a cardbus slot (though not ExpressCard)). > This also only does 10Mb using PIO (no DMA). It doesn't use > bus_space. No PC Cards using this chip were ever made that I could discover (and I tried very hard). Not having enough users that care enough to update it to the latest thing, nor to test it, etc speaks volumes. It’s hardware that’s not relevant enough to generate in the 15 years that they’ve been around. Other ISA and PC Card drivers have had those fixes done, but we’re not talking about them. ie(4) should be retired. Warner [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUbmuhAAoJEGwc0Sh9sBEA34wP/0f9j7Huc5MOjRgn/1aMH6lD gQ43T3XFVHicjNMxIQCBz8PDBWTSrTfb1IYJ2RSUik9l6C7Be1+26qdo8WyrCSUK ce4b8IqfHWXkrwyLRwkcOvIzNVuYihJJLMH6y28FKc1eZ9Hx5k/YS5jro+Fk+41L D4qf+xPaky95v8hvVh5+zhNZOU2msmye4DOHP93YDOF2NM1oq1NxQEz1f6tNgZw5 N5ifAy6HWIgYo2jon35v5YPUHpZCd4cuJu9Fv4SwAAkz8gxc4lNv3K4x4DOI8Ops ZuHb81GWj/Bte5oL6IfgXD/xU5b4iR4u4Tc0ISHcCS2eSuG+ZqkHXYbpAJjm44cx ofnzunfkzlAo+svH/MkxXS5ASlc7ibvYQqY1IYDAVg0O6kRqC0esQLWFhqL0VMth sd/I6jZ3lF1lR8lmajOtxPecJLieJABQcQpfENggvRKaYXIOYs3VwWOH515H2a8E mo+KZi3YOIDCairyGcmGHjlw3tPhcoq8Po2lLmnXnxdZ4nJmsEtIKeZ4SVIU/N4t SdUil9B1hzLXTsh+KQaAdrn+F7AdxP/XPbT6bPeh04qhxPABLUAIEDPvHS0uP1Pd +6nUxXJ2mQeEkOEyRyeXtC+fQZOkQVYKSf5HaTOAeMx4Nx6NgjcSb7X8NrzIuaYY YH0g3X4N2wnAfTmsPEIc =ccKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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