FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

[Brooks Davis]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On 10/4/18 3:07 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > At the root of this problem is the community's long resistance to having
> > data reported back to the project data about the machines running FreeBSD.
> > Absent any real and significant data, the only way to know if things are
> > unused is to ask. We cannot have the act of merely asking cause people to
> > freak out and hurl expletives all over the place. That's significantly not
> > cool.
> 
> First off, I absolutely don't want to flame: I'm glad you asked and I 
> was happy to answer.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, don't we have sysutils/bsdstats (which I install 
> on all the boxes I manage, but I understand won't be present in most 
> embedded systems)?
> Is that project such a failure?
> If so, should it be better promoted or would it be pointless?

In theory it would provide valuable data, but in practice the website is
broken and unable to produce device data.  I've asked multiple times for
it to be fixed.  It would be great if it worked and we could use it.

-- Brooks
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