I'd like to axe some drivers
Joel Dahl
joel at vnode.se
Fri Nov 21 07:12:10 UTC 2014
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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