RFC: removing the dgrs net driver
Based on the information in the email forwarded below I'd remove the dgrs net driver (this wasn't the first driver shipped with the kernel without any hardware ever produced...). Is this OK or is there any doubt whether this information is true? cu Adrian - Forwarded message from Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:00:12 -0400 From: Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Please remove useless dgrs driver An official email from digi.com to Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] explained: Dear Andres: After further research, we found that this product was killed in place and never reached the market. We would like to request that this not be included. Copy at http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing (this was discovered during research into firmware licensing). The drgs driver is useless (no hardware to drive) and should be removed. The files which should be deleted from the tree are: drivers/net/dgrs.c drivers/net/dgrs.h drivers/net/dgrs_es4h.h drivers/net/dgrs_plx9060.h drivers/net/dgrs_i82596.h drivers/net/dgrs_ether.h drivers/net/dgrs_asstruct.h drivers/net/dgrs_bcomm.h drivers/net/dgrs_firmware.c It will probably also be necessary to delete some stuff from drivers/net/Kconfig and drivers/net/Makefile, but I assume that this will be trivial for any net maintainer. Thanks in advance for doing this. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.) --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - End forwarded message - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: RFC: removing the dgrs net driver
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:19:32 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on the information in the email forwarded below I'd remove the dgrs net driver (this wasn't the first driver shipped with the kernel without any hardware ever produced...). Is this OK or is there any doubt whether this information is true? As I understand it a small number of such devices were produced, but I have no objection to it going away. Even if someone had such a card it would not actually be useful any more. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: RFC: removing the dgrs net driver
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:19:32PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: Based on the information in the email forwarded below I'd remove the dgrs net driver (this wasn't the first driver shipped with the kernel without any hardware ever produced...). Is this OK or is there any doubt whether this information is true? cu Adrian ok thanks for doing this, as the reporter was to lazy to cook up a proper patch for that. there is zero bug report for dgrs on the debian bts nor did i find one in bugzilla.kernel.org. redhat guys might want to verify on their side. - Forwarded message from Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:00:12 -0400 From: Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Please remove useless dgrs driver An official email from digi.com to Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] explained: Dear Andres: After further research, we found that this product was killed in place and never reached the market. We would like to request that this not be included. Copy at http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing (this was discovered during research into firmware licensing). The drgs driver is useless (no hardware to drive) and should be removed. The files which should be deleted from the tree are: drivers/net/dgrs.c drivers/net/dgrs.h drivers/net/dgrs_es4h.h drivers/net/dgrs_plx9060.h drivers/net/dgrs_i82596.h drivers/net/dgrs_ether.h drivers/net/dgrs_asstruct.h drivers/net/dgrs_bcomm.h drivers/net/dgrs_firmware.c It will probably also be necessary to delete some stuff from drivers/net/Kconfig and drivers/net/Makefile, but I assume that this will be trivial for any net maintainer. Thanks in advance for doing this. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.) --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - End forwarded message - -- maks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
