Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:02:07 +0100 From: Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <20141121070207.GA19348@ymer.vnode.se> In-Reply-To: <20141120220752.GI24601@funkthat.com> References: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> <20141120220752.GI24601@funkthat.com>
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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. -- Joel
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