RFC: deprecation of nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removal from 11-CURRENT

[Remko Lodder]

On 03 Feb 2014, at 15:23, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:

> On 02/03/2014 07:56 AM, Christian Brueffer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> for some time now we have had two drivers for NVIDIA NForce/MCP network
>> chips, namely nve(4) and nfe(4).
>> 
>> The former came first and is based on a binary blob.  The latter was
>> later ported from OpenBSD and is blob-free.
>> 
>> nfe(4) supports all chips nve(4) supports, in addition to all the newer
>> hardware.  In essence, nfe(4) has been the de-facto standard driver for
>> a long time.  nve(4) has been commented out in GENERIC since 2007.
>> 
>> For this reason I propose deprecating nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removing
>> it from HEAD.
>> 
>> Does anyone see a reason not to do this?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Christian (wearing my best asbestos suit)
>> 
> 
> 
> If you're going to be so very polite about it, how do you
> expect us to have a 2000 email chain fight examining
> every possible implication of your proposal ... :)

in other words, just do it [tm].

> 
> 
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