I'd like to axe some drivers

[John-Mark Gurney]

Garrett Cooper wrote this message on Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 23:15 -0800:
> On Nov 20, 2014, at 23:02, Joel Dahl <joel at vnode.se> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 02:07:52PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >> John Baldwin wrote this message on Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 16:31 -0500:
> >>> I'm >< close to removing timeout/untimeout from the tree.  As part of this I 
> >>> have updated several older drivers to use callout(9), but most of those 
> >>> patches were untested.  Keeping old code around that no one uses does add 
> >>> future work as tree-wide API changes are made as well as things like locking 
> >>> (note that several of these drivers weren't locked until I recently changed 
> >>> them).  To that end, here is my short list of things that I think we can bid 
> >>> farewell to in 11.  Note that many of these are for ISA devices.
> >>> 
> >> I'm fine w/ removing these...  Should we do some house cleaning on
> >> amd64's GENERIC too?
> >> 
> >> amd64's GENERIC has a lot of ISA or 100Mbit ethernet cards that are
> >> clearly not going to be used on these machines...
> >> 
> >> My recommended list to remove:
> >> ae, bfe, dc, fxp, hme?, pcn, rl, tx, vr, wb, xl, cs, ed, ex, ep, fe,
> >> sn, xe
> > 
> > I have amd64 machines with dc, fxp, pcn, rl and xl cards, so please don't remove
> > these from GENERIC. I think I have bfe, vr and ed cards as well, but I have to
> > check if they're in i386 or amd64 machines.
> 
> Hi jhb/jmg,
> 	I realize it?s not canonical/complete, but have you checked into BSDStats yet http://bsdstats.org/bt/devices/class/02/subclass/00.html ?

I've tried to use that site, but sadly, does not make raw dmesg available,
and w/o dmesg you can't easily get the data I need to make an informed
decission...  I believe I've tried to locate the maintainer to get this
info, but was unable to...

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