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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--Apple-Mail=_BBC83AAA-CBAD-4477-929E-074EBEA5BC37 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 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=92s. I discarded this cards themselves a couple of years ago. It doesn=92t interoperate with anything except itself. Comparisons = to wi(4) aren=92t really relevant.This is ancient hardware, of limited use = to all but a few arcane people that hasn=92t 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=92s = hardware that=92s not relevant enough to generate in the 15 years that they=92ve been = around. Other ISA and PC Card drivers have had those fixes done, but we=92re not talking about them. ie(4) should be retired. Warner --Apple-Mail=_BBC83AAA-CBAD-4477-929E-074EBEA5BC37 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----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----- --Apple-Mail=_BBC83AAA-CBAD-4477-929E-074EBEA5BC37--
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