Re: Future of the axe driver?

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:40:02PM -0800, Luke Dean wrote:
> 
> I've got a Netgear FA120 usb-to-ethernet device.  I don't use it
> regularly, but it has saved the day on many occasions.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 right now, not CURRENT, and this device is
> supported by the axe driver.
> 
> I've been trying to follow the news with CURRENT, and it sounds like axe
> is being phased out for a couple of different reasons.  I saw posts about
> how it doesn't fit with the way CURRENT wants to do locking or with the
> new usb changes.  I browsed the CVS repository and saw that its code had
> been moved into the attic this week.
> 
> Has axe been phased out?  Will there be another driver to support my
> device when I decide to move to FreeBSD 8?  Is there anything I can do to
> help preserve support for this device?

Im not sure what posts were saying it was going to be phased out but it
isnt true and the hardware is very much supported. The driver now lives
under a slighty different location of sys/dev/usb/net/if_axe.c


Andrew