I'd like to axe some drivers

[Garrett Cooper]

On Nov 20, 2014, at 13:31, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.

…

> si(4):    This is a driver for an older ISA/EISA/PCI multiport serial card.
>          It doesn't use bus_space.  It was hacked up to use new tty, but
>          still uses Giant.  I have a partial set of outstanding patches to
>          this to fix it to use bus_space, but when I sent them out for
>          testing on current and stable, no one replied.

Please remove usr.sbin/sicontrol as well if this gets removed:

OLD_FILES+=usr/sbin/sicontrol
OLD_FILES+=usr/share/man/man8/sicontrol.8.gz

...

> spic(4):  At one point the Sony VAIO was "the" cool laptop, and this driver
>          controlled the "jogdial" found on it and presented it as a mouse.
>          This is a tiny driver and is less invasive in terms of future
>          maintenance than others perhaps, but my recent calls for testing
>          on current@ and stable@ found no takers.  It's a fairly obscure
>          device and not one that exists on any recently shipped hardware.

Handling of this driver might need to be removed from moused/devd (there’s a reference to moused at the bottom of the manpage, but a cursory grep reveals nothing for “sony" or "spic"… hmm).

Thanks!
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