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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2018 18:20:10 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Sean Bruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r333388 - in head: . share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/nxge sys/modules sys/modules/nxge tools/kerneldoc/subsys tools/tools tools/tools/nxge usr.sbin/bsdconfig/share
Message-ID:  <20180523182010.GB58848@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180523174117.GO71675@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201805082114.w48LETM3060105@repo.freebsd.org> <20180523174117.GO71675@FreeBSD.org>

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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> +
>=20
> If end of sales and support is enough to remove 10g driver from the kerne=
l,
> can we please delete all 10Mbit, 100Mbit 10+ year old drivers from the ke=
rnel?

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.

-- Brooks

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