From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: RFC: removing the dgrs net driver Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:19:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20061202171932.GP11084@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nathanael Nerode , Andres Salomon Return-path: Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:36357 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1424235AbWLBRT1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:19:27 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 ----- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:00:12 -0400 From: Nathanael Nerode To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Please remove useless dgrs driver An official email from digi.com to Andres Salomon 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 "(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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ----- End forwarded message -----