git: 4bc148c30eff - main - bfe: add unmaintained / deprecation notice
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:44:19 UTC
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