RFC: deprecation of nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removal from 11-CURR
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Hi,
for some time now we have had two drivers for NVIDIA NForce/MCP network
chips, namely nve(4) and nfe(4).
The former came first and is based on a binary blob. The latter was
later ported from OpenBSD and is blob-free.
nfe(4) supports all chips nve(4) supports, in addition to all the newer
hardware. In essence, nfe(4) has been the de-facto standard driver for
a long time. nve(4) has been commented out in GENERIC since 2007.
For this reason I propose deprecating nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removing
it from HEAD.
Does anyone see a reason not to do this?
Cheers,
Christian (wearing my best asbestos suit)
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