From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>,
Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Subject: RFC: removing the dgrs net driver
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:19:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061202171932.GP11084@stusta.de> (raw)
Based on the information in the email forwarded below I'd remove the
dgrs net driver (this wasn't the first driver shipped with the kernel
without any hardware ever produced...).
Is this OK or is there any doubt whether this information is true?
cu
Adrian
----- Forwarded message from Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm> -----
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:00:12 -0400
From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Please remove useless dgrs driver
An official email from digi.com to Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
explained:
Dear Andres:
After further research, we found that this product was killed in place
and never reached the market. We would like to request that this not be
included.
Copy at http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing (this was discovered
during research into firmware licensing).
The drgs driver is useless (no hardware to drive) and should be removed.
The files which should be deleted from the tree are:
drivers/net/dgrs.c
drivers/net/dgrs.h
drivers/net/dgrs_es4h.h
drivers/net/dgrs_plx9060.h
drivers/net/dgrs_i82596.h
drivers/net/dgrs_ether.h
drivers/net/dgrs_asstruct.h
drivers/net/dgrs_bcomm.h
drivers/net/dgrs_firmware.c
It will probably also be necessary to delete some stuff from drivers/net/Kconfig
and drivers/net/Makefile, but I assume that this will be trivial for any
net maintainer.
Thanks in advance for doing this.
--
Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>
"(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in
the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek,
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html
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next reply other threads:[~2006-12-02 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-02 17:19 Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-12-02 17:31 ` RFC: removing the dgrs net driver Alan
2006-12-02 17:31 ` maximilian attems
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