I'm willing to help out with rl(4) as I have one here. Others, not scheduled
for removal, that I can help one way or another are are NICs, including
wireless, currently installed here.
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Cy Schubert
<Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com> or <cy at freebsd.org>
The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Poul-Henning Kamp
Sent: 04/10/2018 07:03
To: Warner Losh
Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev; Brooks Davis; FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List; FreeBSD Net;
freebsd-arch at freebsd.org; freebsd-fcp at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers
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In message <CANCZdfpFXs_Ed-gMZnnSs2eAxYh8hdwr-6dh9rpUUPbZXO0hWA at
mail.gmail.com>
, Warner Losh writes:
>Most of these drivers have had dozens or hundreds of commits each over the
>years to keep up with the API changes. This acts as a tax on innovation
>because it's such a pain in the back side to change all the drivers in
the
>tree.
As one who has been there, a couple of times: SECONDED!
It is particular unpleasant when you have no way to test the changes.
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Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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