From owner-svn-src-head@freebsd.org Thu Aug 18 06:50:25 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E3FBBBD5EE; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:50:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B2CF13E0; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:50:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (ppp121-45-226-8.lns20.per1.internode.on.net [121.45.226.8]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id u7I6oEwm000886 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 17 Aug 2016 23:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: svn commit: r304187 - in head: . share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/mcd sys/modules sys/modules/mcd To: John Baldwin , src-committers@freebsd.org References: <201608152038.u7FKc2NL026330@repo.freebsd.org> <2065331.KaGOSftJhd@ralph.baldwin.cx> Cc: svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <0d6c2e45-e4da-9bb7-a50c-212135d9ac4f@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:50:08 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2065331.KaGOSftJhd@ralph.baldwin.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:50:25 -0000 On 16/08/2016 4:54 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, August 15, 2016 08:38:02 PM John Baldwin wrote: >> Author: jhb >> Date: Mon Aug 15 20:38:02 2016 >> New Revision: 304187 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/304187 >> >> Log: >> Remove the mcd(4) driver for Mitsumi CD-ROM players. >> >> This is a driver for a pre-ATAPI ISA CD-ROM adapter. As noted in >> the manpage, this driver is only useful as a backend to cdcontrol to >> play audio CDs since it doesn't use DMA, so its data performance is >> "abysmal" (and that was true in the mid 90's). > No one stepped up to test patches for it either when I last posted patches to > convert it from timeout(9) to callout(9). I have a few more drivers that are > both very old and that people have no business using in 12 (think ISA > adapters that don't do DMA and can't be used with pccard) that I will be > removing over the next little while. I brought up a list of drivers on arch@ > a couple of years ago and the conversation drifted off into the weeds about > trimming GENERIC, etc. No one objected to the specific drivers I listed > though (and I got a few pleas of "please remove"). If someone shows up > desperately clutching an ISA adapter they can always dig up the source from > svn and deal with forward porting it for whatever API changes have happened > since it was removed. I would imagine any machine still holding one of these probably has not enough memory to run FreeBSD. would we still run in 2MB? >