Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:50:08 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Cc: svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r304187 - in head: . share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/mcd sys/modules sys/modules/mcd Message-ID: <0d6c2e45-e4da-9bb7-a50c-212135d9ac4f@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <2065331.KaGOSftJhd@ralph.baldwin.cx> References: <201608152038.u7FKc2NL026330@repo.freebsd.org> <2065331.KaGOSftJhd@ralph.baldwin.cx>
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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? >
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