vxge(4): deprecation notice

This hardware isn't totally ancient, about equal to a mxge(4) or mlx4en(4),
but the company was sold to Exar which then promptly exited the Ethernet
business so the card was commercially available for under 2 years. On deep
search, the only usage of these cards I found was by the importing of the
driver. There are code quality issues identified by Brooks and Hiren and
no visible use nor maintainership that warrant removal from FreeBSD 12.0.

Submitted by:	kbowling
Reviewed by:	gnn brooks
Sponsored by:	Limelight Networks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15363
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Sean Bruno 2018-05-11 17:26:59 +00:00
parent 15404bc5e1
commit 3096900d09
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=333499
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@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ module at boot time, place the following line in
.Bd -literal -offset indent
if_vxge_load="YES"
.Ed
.Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE
The
.Nm
driver is not present in
.Fx 12.0
and later.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm

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@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ vxge_attach(device_t ndev)
err = ENXIO;
}
gone_in_dev(ndev, 12, "vxge(4) driver");
return (err);
}