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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:00:12 -0400 > From: Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: netdev@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Please remove useless dgrs driver > > An official email from digi.com to Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "(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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- maks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
