Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 02:14:19 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com> Cc: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-branches@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: c433c96d865e - stable/13 - Update deprecation version for drivers removed in main Message-ID: <Ybvye2HdsKxQ2WQq@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <YbrIvU5smPHmzf2V@bali> References: <202111251654.1APGshIj080759@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <YbrIvU5smPHmzf2V@bali>
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 06:03:57AM +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > On Thu, 25-Nov-2021 at 16:54:43 +0000, Ed Maste wrote: > > ... > > commit c433c96d865e49db8bba63f27ee692ce0e752546 > > > > Update deprecation version for drivers removed in main > > > > Removal of the amr, esp, iir, mly and twa drivers was planned before > > What is the reason for this, in my case regarding twa? Are there > changes which have to be done and nobody is willing to do them? > Or is it more or less because nobody seems to be using it? > > I am using twa on 5 machines and would greatly appreciate if it > could stay. +1. While I perfonally don't administer such machines, 3ware 9K series were quite popular some ten years ago for building hardware RAIDs, and I assume there should be lots of cards still in good use. E.g. Hetzner still provides (and updates) instructions on how to use those on their didicated servers*. Why drop support in the first place? They had not been converted to use iflib(4) or something? :-) ./danfe *) https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/raid/3ware-raid-controller/
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