I'm willing to help out with rl(4) as I have one here. Others, not scheduled 
for removal, that I can help one way or another are are NICs, including 
wireless, currently installed here.

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Cy Schubert
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The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Poul-Henning Kamp
Sent: 04/10/2018 07:03
To: Warner Losh
Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev; Brooks Davis; FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List; FreeBSD Net; 
freebsd-a...@freebsd.org; freebsd-...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

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In message <canczdfpfxs_ed-gmznnss2eaxyh8hdwr-6dh9rpuupbzxo0...@mail.gmail.com>
, Warner Losh writes:

>Most of these drivers have had dozens or hundreds of commits each over the
>years to keep up with the API changes. This acts as a tax on innovation
>because it's such a pain in the back side to change all the drivers in the
>tree.

As one who has been there, a couple of times: SECONDED!

It is particular unpleasant when you have no way to test the changes.

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