On 02/03/2014 07:56 AM, Christian Brueffer wrote: > 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) > 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 ... :) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra_at_tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/Received on Mon Feb 03 2014 - 13:24:06 UTC
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