[OpenPower-Firmware] [PATCH v2] skiroot_defconfig: Remove obsolete drivers

Klaus Heinrich Kiwi klaus at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Dec 10 06:17:21 AEDT 2020



On 12/9/2020 1:54 PM, Stewart Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, at 7:08 AM, Klaus Heinrich Kiwi wrote:
>> Reduce the kernel size in a few dozens KBs by removing old or
>> obsolete device drivers:
>>     * Chelsio T3 and T4 and QLogic NetXtreme II iSCSI support - these
>>       were probably added in error since we don't have iscsi userspace
>>       even configured
>>     * Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit, QLogic bnx2 & CNIC
>>       support, Myricom Myri-10G & Neterion (Exar) Xframe 10Gb - these
>>       are apparently never used or obsolete
>>     * Solarflare NIC adapter support - not being used
> 
> doc/ should be updated, probably noting when the drivers were removed.

Good catch, will do in V3

  -K

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Klaus Heinrich Kiwi <klaus at linux.vnet.ibm.com>


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