I'd like to axe some drivers

Garrett Cooper yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 07:15:59 UTC 2014


On Nov 20, 2014, at 23:02, Joel Dahl <joel at 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!
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