RFC: removing the dgrs net driver

RFC: removing the dgrs net driver

[Adrian Bunk]

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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Re: RFC: removing the dgrs net driver

[Alan]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:19:32 +0100
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:

> 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?

As I understand it a small number of such devices were produced, but I
have no objection to it going away. Even if someone had such a card it
would not actually be useful any more.

Alan

Re: RFC: removing the dgrs net driver

[maximilian attems]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:19:32PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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

ok thanks for doing this,
as the reporter was to lazy to cook up a proper patch for that.

there is zero bug report for dgrs on the debian bts nor did i find
one in bugzilla.kernel.org. redhat guys might want to verify on their
side.

 
> ----- 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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