svn commit: r327381 - in head/sys: conf dev/ep i386/isa modules modules/elink modules/ep

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 04:02:39PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > On 30/12/2017 06:42, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > > Author: kib
> > > Date: Sat Dec 30 11:42:49 2017
> > > New Revision: 327381
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/327381
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >    Move i386/isa/elink.[hc] to dev/ep.
> > >
> > >    The ep(4) driver is the only consumer of the two functions from
> > >    elink.c.  I removed the standalone module as well, and most likely,
> > >    the module metadata is not needed anywhere, but this is for later
> > >    cleanup.
> > >
> > >    Discussed with:  imp, jhb
> > >    Sponsored by:    The FreeBSD Foundation
> > For the record, I find this change very cool.
> >
> > It makes the code more modular and the license for those two files also
> > matches the license in the ep driver.
>
> The idea of this change and r327380 is to clean up i386/isa.  There are
> three more files to go
>

Originally, the ie driver and the ep driver shared the elink code since
there were two different drivers, but the same pre-PNP discovery method for
these cards. It makes sense to do what was just done now that ie is gone.

Warner