On Wed, May 23, 2018, 12:20 PM Brooks Davis <bro...@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 > _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"