Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:44:19 GMT From: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: 4bc148c30eff - main - bfe: add unmaintained / deprecation notice Message-ID: <202306202044.35KKiJS8073484@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by emaste: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=4bc148c30effe0fc1c21b6bbaee366f239353ac1 commit 4bc148c30effe0fc1c21b6bbaee366f239353ac1 Author: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2023-06-20 12:44:22 +0000 Commit: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2023-06-20 20:42:34 +0000 bfe: add unmaintained / deprecation notice The bfe (Broadcom BCM4401 10/100 Ethernet) driver has known bugs and no active maintenance. There have been no changes other than sweeping tree changes, typo corrections etc. since 2008 a far as I can tell. Add a note in the man page so that users expectations are correctly set, and indicate that it may be removed in the future. I did not add a gone_in() call in the driver itself as there is no specific target version for removal, and this driver has evidence of recent use (dmesg, PRs). PR: 201947, 213751 Reviewed by: brooks Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40625 --- share/man/man4/bfe.4 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/share/man/man4/bfe.4 b/share/man/man4/bfe.4 index 307813b7ab4f..837eca404241 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/bfe.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/bfe.4 @@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ module at boot time, place the following line in .Bd -literal -offset indent if_bfe_load="YES" .Ed +.Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE +The +.Nm +driver is unmaintained and may be removed from +.Fx +in a future release. +.Fx . .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm
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