Re: RFC: Remove nes

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On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 02:42:58PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 12:23:45PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Oh? I wonder who..

I have same feeling like Jason, that it was you.

>
> > Perhaps we were discussing cxgb3 removal?
>
> I know we discussed that :) can we remove cxgb3? :)

Ohh, good, I would like to remove UCM too, we waited enough.

>
> > Anyway, are you certain it doesn't support REG_MR?  I see support
> > for it in nes_post_send().
>
> Hm, not really, but I thought it was one of the ones. It does set
> IB_DEVICE_MEM_MGT_EXTENSIONS so I guess it is OK.
>
> Jason



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