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: > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 6:53 AM Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> > wrote: > >>> 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. >> > > 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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