Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:15:26 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <E4794E7E-7350-478E-A52F-540AE4F74498@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20141121070207.GA19348@ymer.vnode.se> References: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> <20141120220752.GI24601@funkthat.com> <20141121070207.GA19348@ymer.vnode.se>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 ? Thanks! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUbuaOAAoJEMZr5QU6S73eAVoIAJDSMTr+RT9nLenKaQV5wrwL g9dsH2CMEBDWgH0z9+9hI+nuQHZwNQamv6bpghg0XUQqAnsq+Sd3cPeZ75Uxfdqv 3DaIT9RHgl7AzIyByeCb39wBB+DNldSuoUVm++d8t/5zIsZdktbFzPQuS2b3wtnp LfQSEn6adatDgqW3Oc3bRs42U13kQMQgIEBLZiGeKok7meDrU0mdnSpEPaO9d1z3 JiKkUMg6xte7W6pnnkYIMTzjbmNntOma/ka09faJrl5O/cxkkXHRvxaScEIgxKVR KcqRSf3xg54bmAPiVRTuUwKLMhn7/3DvnROH0Vj2oV1ZZPjxemffiqu7pO5uy5U= =a8yJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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