Re: RFC: deprecation of nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removal from

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On 03 Feb 2014, at 15:23, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote:

> On 02/03/2014 07:56 AM, Christian Brueffer wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> for some time now we have had two drivers for NVIDIA NForce/MCP =
network
>> chips, namely nve(4) and nfe(4).
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>> The former came first and is based on a binary blob.  The latter was
>> later ported from OpenBSD and is blob-free.
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>> 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.
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>> For this reason I propose deprecating nve(4) in 10-STABLE and =
removing
>> it from HEAD.
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>> Does anyone see a reason not to do this?
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>> Cheers,
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>> Christian (wearing my best asbestos suit)
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> If you're going to be so very polite about it, how do you
> expect us to have a 2000 email chain fight examining
> every possible implication of your proposal ... :)

in other words, just do it [tm].

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