bfe: add unmaintained / deprecation notice
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Authored by emaste on Jun 20 2023, 12:51 PM.

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rG4bc148c30eff: bfe: add unmaintained / deprecation notice

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The bfe (Broadcom BCM4401 10/100 Ethernet) driver has known bugs and no
active maintenance.  There have been no changes other than sweeping tree
changes, typo corrections etc. since 2008.  Add a note in the man page
so that users expectations are correctly set, and indicate that it may
be removed in the future.

PR:             213751
Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation

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emaste requested review of this revision.Jun 20 2023, 12:51 PM

emaste created this revision.

Also add a gone_in_dev() in attach?

Interestingly, this was one of the few that straightforwardly cleared the popularity bar in the last purge https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213751

brooks accepted this revision.Jun 20 2023, 5:09 PM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 20 2023, 5:09 PM

Closed by commit rG4bc148c30eff: bfe: add unmaintained / deprecation notice (authored by emaste). · Explain WhyJun 20 2023, 8:44 PM

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