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[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:41:17AM -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> > If end of sales and support is enough to remove 10g driver from the kernel,
> > can we please delete all 10Mbit, 100Mbit 10+ year old drivers from the kernel?
> 
> Depends on how many existing users we want to screw over.  Not everyone
> replaces all their hardware every 2 years, folks.

And some of us buy 2 year old hardware because it is cheap,
and serves our needs just fine.   Even 8 year old servers
make usable machines today.

> The difference is that the Exar chips failed in the marketplace; very
> few seem to have made it out into the wild.
> 
> Given, 10Mbit-only things are way past their sell-by date.

Do we even have any 10Mbit only drivers?  I think that all the
10mbit drivers also support 100mbit devices, but maybe there
are some odd cases I cant remeber.

I do agree that we need to be very carefull about killing "dead wood",
and have advocated proper notice as a first order to helping with that.

I think we also need to be able to back track if we find we have
made a mistake.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org