Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 23:03:08 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <20141202070308.GA99957@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <E4794E7E-7350-478E-A52F-540AE4F74498@gmail.com> References: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> <20141120220752.GI24601@funkthat.com> <20141121070207.GA19348@ymer.vnode.se> <E4794E7E-7350-478E-A52F-540AE4F74498@gmail.com>
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Garrett Cooper wrote this message on Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 23:15 -0800: > On Nov 20, 2014, at 23:02, Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 02:07:52PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >> John Baldwin wrote this message on Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 16:31 -0500: > >>> I'm >< close to removing timeout/untimeout from the tree. As part of this I > >>> have updated several older drivers to use callout(9), but most of those > >>> patches were untested. Keeping old code around that no one uses does add > >>> future work as tree-wide API changes are made as well as things like locking > >>> (note that several of these drivers weren't locked until I recently changed > >>> them). To that end, here is my short list of things that I think we can bid > >>> farewell to in 11. Note that many of these are for ISA devices. > >>> > >> I'm fine w/ removing these... Should we do some house cleaning on > >> amd64's GENERIC too? > >> > >> amd64's GENERIC has a lot of ISA or 100Mbit ethernet cards that are > >> clearly not going to be used on these machines... > >> > >> My recommended list to remove: > >> ae, bfe, dc, fxp, hme?, pcn, rl, tx, vr, wb, xl, cs, ed, ex, ep, fe, > >> sn, xe > > > > I have amd64 machines with dc, fxp, pcn, rl and xl cards, so please don't remove > > these from GENERIC. I think I have bfe, vr and ed cards as well, but I have to > > check if they're in i386 or amd64 machines. > > Hi jhb/jmg, > I realize it?s not canonical/complete, but have you checked into BSDStats yet http://bsdstats.org/bt/devices/class/02/subclass/00.html ? I've tried to use that site, but sadly, does not make raw dmesg available, and w/o dmesg you can't easily get the data I need to make an informed decission... I believe I've tried to locate the maintainer to get this info, but was unable to... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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