From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: 2.7 net driver stuff Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:26:48 +1100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <1080167207.1115.5.camel@gaston> References: <4061CC0F.6060201@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Netdev Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <4061CC0F.6060201@pobox.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 04:57, Jeff Garzik wrote: > An initial, quick FYI. I'll be taking input for net drivers that can be > removed in 2.7. Even some of the ancient ISA net drivers still have users, > > Other stuff: > * Would like to get rid of de4x5.c, but EISA support still has users > that appear to care :) And I have an old pmac laptop for which tulip dies while de4x5 works, I didn't figure out what's up yet. > * pondering importing Donald's myson driver, replacing unmaintained > fealnx.c. We have the new module_alias() stuff, which makes the > transition a bit easier. > > Jeff > -- Benjamin Herrenschmidt