On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 11:24 AM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Since we have gained another two (EFA, SIW) drivers lately, I'd really > like to remove NES as we have in the past for other drivers. > > This hardware was proposed to be removed at the last purge, but I > think that Steve still wanted to keep it for some reason. I suppose > that has changed now. > > If I recall the reasons for removal were basically: > - Does not support modern FRWR, which is now becoming mandatory for ULPs > - Does not support 64 bit physical addresses, so is useless on modern > servers > - Possibly nobody has even loaded the module in years. Wouldn't be > surprised to learn it is broken with all the recent churn. > > Remarkably there still seem to be cards in ebay though.. > > Jason It wasn't me. Perhaps we were discussing cxgb3 removal? Anyway, are you certain it doesn't support REG_MR? I see support for it in nes_post_send().
