removing plip from GENERIC

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Wed Jan 30 21:39:31 UTC 2013


There has been some discussion about removing plip support from GENERIC kernels.
plip still appears in sys/conf/NOTES

Does anyone object to the following?

commit f4efd3cf43514bcb1378e2c5e8879a411b943be2
Author: Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 15:13:57 2013 -0500

    Remove support for plip from the GENERIC kernel as no systems in the
    last 10 years require this support.

    Discussed with:	db
    Discussed with:	imp
    Reviewed by:	-hackers
    Approved by:	??? (mentor)

diff --git a/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC b/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
index e53f692..5819a0d 100644
--- a/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
+++ b/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
@@ -197,7 +197,6 @@ device		uart		# Generic UART driver
 device		ppc
 device		ppbus		# Parallel port bus (required)
 device		lpt		# Printer
-device		plip		# TCP/IP over parallel
 device		ppi		# Parallel port interface device
 #device		vpo		# Requires scbus and da

diff --git a/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC b/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
index 819379e..47af43b 100644
--- a/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
+++ b/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
@@ -208,7 +208,6 @@ device		uart		# Generic UART driver
 device		ppc
 device		ppbus		# Parallel port bus (required)
 device		lpt		# Printer
-device		plip		# TCP/IP over parallel
 device		ppi		# Parallel port interface device
 #device		vpo		# Requires scbus and da

diff --git a/sys/pc98/conf/GENERIC b/sys/pc98/conf/GENERIC
index 2b048a9..eda1d14 100644
--- a/sys/pc98/conf/GENERIC
+++ b/sys/pc98/conf/GENERIC
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ device		mse
 device		ppc
 device		ppbus		# Parallel port bus (required)
 device		lpt		# Printer
-device		plip		# TCP/IP over parallel
 device		ppi		# Parallel port interface device
 #device		vpo		# Requires scbus and da
 # OLD Parallel port
diff --git a/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC b/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC
index f9d3b93..79124ab 100644
--- a/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC
+++ b/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC
@@ -161,7 +161,6 @@ device		uart		# Multi-uart driver
 #device		ppc
 #device		ppbus		# Parallel port bus (required)
 #device		lpt		# Printer
-#device		plip		# TCP/IP over parallel
 #device		ppi		# Parallel port interface device
 #device		vpo		# Requires scbus and da



-- 
Eitan Adler


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