RFC: removing the dgrs net driver

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Based on the information in the email forwarded below I'd remove the 
dgrs net driver (this wasn't the first driver shipped with the kernel 
without any hardware ever produced...).

Is this OK or is there any doubt whether this information is true?

cu
Adrian


----- Forwarded message from Nathanael Nerode <[email protected]> -----

Date:	Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:00:12 -0400
From: Nathanael Nerode <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Please remove useless dgrs driver

An official email from digi.com to Andres Salomon <[email protected]>
explained:

 Dear Andres:

 After further research, we found that this product was killed in place
 and never reached the market.  We would like to request that this not be
 included.

Copy at http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing (this was discovered
during research into firmware licensing).

The drgs driver is useless (no hardware to drive) and should be removed.
The files which should be deleted from the tree are:
        drivers/net/dgrs.c
        drivers/net/dgrs.h
        drivers/net/dgrs_es4h.h
        drivers/net/dgrs_plx9060.h
        drivers/net/dgrs_i82596.h
        drivers/net/dgrs_ether.h
        drivers/net/dgrs_asstruct.h
        drivers/net/dgrs_bcomm.h
        drivers/net/dgrs_firmware.c

It will probably also be necessary to delete some stuff from drivers/net/Kconfig
and drivers/net/Makefile, but I assume that this will be trivial for any
net maintainer.

Thanks in advance for doing this.

-- 
Nathanael Nerode  <[email protected]>

"(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in
the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek,
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html
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