PC Card deprecation notice #14
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One typo to fix, but otherwise looks good to me.
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| # FCP 10: PC Card Deprecation Notice | ||
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| PC Card has not been relevant in years. It's inclusion in the tree is holding us back. |
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Failed to notice in my initial review: this should be FCP 101 not 10 and the index should be updated (@allanjude that part of the process kind of sucks from a scaling perspective) |
| PC Card used to be very relevant. However, the only reason we have a | ||
| number of really old network drivers is due to PC Card. If we were to | ||
| remove it, many of them could be deleted. PC Card is a 16-bit only | ||
| standard. Most relevant hardware that FreeBSD runs on has CardBus |
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Maybe "Most relevant hardware FreeBSD runs on that have PC Card slots have CardBus slots"? As it is, the sentence implies that most hardware FreeBSD runs on has CardBus slots and that's definitely not true and not something I think you mean to say.
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I'll clarify. Relevant here referred to hardware that had pcmcia slots, not relevant to the project.
| We will remove PC Card from the tree. We will also remove drivers that are | ||
| only in the tree for PC Card support, and all the PC Card attachments. | ||
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| The unforunately named /etc/pccard_ether, run when a network card is |
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We can't. Or at least it would require several steps. It requires a new devd.conf setup which has been dodgy to require in the past as it is often configured by users... it hasn't seemed worth the effort as its name has become less relevant over time. It's also orthogonal to the removal.
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Sample deprecation notice: PC Card's time has gone. We're planning on removing it.