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[Warner Losh]

On Wed, May 23, 2018, 12:20 PM Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:41:17AM -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:14:29PM +0000, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > S> Log:
> > S>   nxge(4):
> > S>   Remove nxge(4) and associated man page and tools in FreeBSD 12.0.
> > ...
> > S> +20180508:
> > S> +  The nxge(4) driver has been removed.  This driver was for PCI-X 10g
> > S> +  cards made by s2io/Neterion.  The company was aquired by Exar and
> > S> +  no longer sells or supports Ethernet products.  If you have device
> > S> +  nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed.
> > S> +
> >
> > 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?
>
> It's probably a good idea to add deprecation notices for them now and
> merge for 11 to find out which ones still have users.  Someone on IRC
> mentioned that FreeNAS removed them and ended up restoring one, but I
> don't remember which one it was.
>
> My gut feeling is that we're a bit late in the game for doing a mass
> removal for 12, but we should definitely do so for 13.
>

I'd planned on doing exactly this. There are also really old CAM drivers
that need to go so we can c lookean up other things...

I'd also planned on putting gone in 13 for pc card and cardbus stuff, which
is what's gating some nic drivers leaving...

Warner

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