Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:40:13 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <99B70734-2E98-4E3D-AB22-583621A20C86@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org>
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--Apple-Mail=_C2D0A842-55BA-462C-8A05-8BDA6DB7F09A Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Nov 20, 2014, at 13:31, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > I'm >< close to removing timeout/untimeout from the tree. As part of = this I=20 > have updated several older drivers to use callout(9), but most of = those=20 > patches were untested. Keeping old code around that no one uses does = add=20 > future work as tree-wide API changes are made as well as things like = locking=20 > (note that several of these drivers weren't locked until I recently = changed=20 > them). To that end, here is my short list of things that I think we = can bid=20 > farewell to in 11. Note that many of these are for ISA devices. =85 > si(4): This is a driver for an older ISA/EISA/PCI multiport serial = card. > It doesn't use bus_space. It was hacked up to use new tty, = but > still uses Giant. I have a partial set of outstanding = patches to > this to fix it to use bus_space, but when I sent them out for > testing on current and stable, no one replied. Please remove usr.sbin/sicontrol as well if this gets removed: OLD_FILES+=3Dusr/sbin/sicontrol OLD_FILES+=3Dusr/share/man/man8/sicontrol.8.gz ... > spic(4): At one point the Sony VAIO was "the" cool laptop, and this = driver > controlled the "jogdial" found on it and presented it as a = mouse. > This is a tiny driver and is less invasive in terms of future > maintenance than others perhaps, but my recent calls for = testing > on current@ and stable@ found no takers. It's a fairly = obscure > device and not one that exists on any recently shipped = hardware. Handling of this driver might need to be removed from moused/devd = (there=92s a reference to moused at the bottom of the manpage, but a = cursory grep reveals nothing for =93sony" or "spic"=85 hmm). Thanks! --Apple-Mail=_C2D0A842-55BA-462C-8A05-8BDA6DB7F09A Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUdlbNAAoJEMZr5QU6S73ejzsH/A+VA8XAtdELnaVnlaqXRhlj e0/m636UWeHJqVxq+oYyID6ceXE+os9ikQVEN2Uf6Vyx9Q7oekLjSzUBjZ8eV8TD BMHnZVwaAI4SGA78UHVs4CLdPWvrzmV7lqpfSTbKnPCfrf/tivqWhXfJyqYCyu+X lpYMYQ4z1YjvNInx+a3hThpkMllbLCIlbj36SS54qDXZZNUdSlJhGV53LqyCW9Kx hGPeFLC4VLsVRPdsPSZPK5/aAmzI0oj3YXxqfFfMJo7cwswGXDc7nRfsQZmqixev fYtm1V9yJqTsHrs9Sz4bVL4EbDf7/oq0fakN6zH2JSZvSoxJQRC+IM5BktoYBvg= =SGZZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_C2D0A842-55BA-462C-8A05-8BDA6DB7F09A--
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