From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261193AbVA0UuT (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:50:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261192AbVA0Uqt (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:46:49 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:61900 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261187AbVA0UqC (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:46:02 -0500 Message-ID: <41F952F4.7040804@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:45:40 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel , Netdev CC: Greg KH , Andrew Morton Subject: [ANN] removal of certain net drivers coming soon: eepro100, xircom_tulip_cb, iph5526 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (GregKH cc'd for his deprecated list) Though this has already been mentioned, I thought I would send out a reminder. The following net drivers are slated for removal "soon", in the next kernel version or so: 1) iphase (iph5526 a.k.a. drivers/net/fc/*) Been broken since 2.3 or 2.4. Only janitors have kept it compiling. 2) xircom_tulip_cb Unmaintained, and does not work for all xircom 32bit cards. xircom_cb, on the other hand, works for ALL xircom 32bit cards. 3) eepro100 Unmaintained; users should use e100. When I last mentioned eepro100 was going away, I got a few private emails saying complaining about issues not yet taken care of in e100. eepro100 will not be removed until these issues are resolved.