Re: RFC: deprecation of nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removal from 11-CURRENT

On 2/3/14 2:56 PM, 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.
> 

For completeness sake, attached is the proposed patch.

It can also be found here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/nve.removal.diff

Cheers,

Christian