I'd like to axe some drivers

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 21 16:15:16 UTC 2014


On Friday, November 21, 2014 01:19:47 AM Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> If people want to know whats not being used, I guess near all on
> current & arch will have modern, so ask on hackers@ or more likely
> questions@ or the forums.

I posted patches for most of these drivers to stable@ two months ago
(which is a much broader audience than hackers@, current@, or arch@)
and got no reply.  I could post on question at .  It's not clear given
the rules where to post this on the forums.

> There's loads of FreeBSD users runnng latest releases, who are not
> on any list (well maybe announce@) so when drivers go, it comes as
> a shock, so removals should be widely aired in advance in Releases
> notices, where possible please.

Yes, I think tagging these with relnotes: yes is a no-brainer.

-- 
John Baldwin


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