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Release Notes: Hardware Compat: wi(4) hasn't existed since FreeBSD 12
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Authored by concussious.bugzilla_runbox.com on Oct 21 2024, 9:00 PM.
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Summary

Remove it from the template, and release notes that it didn't actually exist in, including upcoming 13.5 and 14.2.

If this is acceptable, please git commit --author ="Alexander Ziaee <concussious@runbox.com>" so I can demonstrate my activity. Thanks!

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Verify that wi(4) did not exist in these releases, and the syntax removing them is good.

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a21def4d568fd was the commit removing this driver. AFAICT it did not actually get listed in the release notes.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 23 2024, 3:31 PM

@cperciva I am sure you mentioned somewhere that it was okay to remove bits but I cannot find it anymore. Possibly on another review or email or github? If it's okay someone can go ahead and commit this.

In D47228#1079492, @bz wrote:

@cperciva I am sure you mentioned somewhere that it was okay to remove bits but I cannot find it anymore. Possibly on another review or email or github? If it's okay someone can go ahead and commit this.

I definitely mentioned it somewhere. I can't remember where either.

As far as I'm concerned, removing items which slipped into the hardware notes by accident because nobody remembered to remove them falls under "fix typos"; I wouldn't want to rewrite old release notes in a way which changes the intended meaning, but they were never intended to lie about what hardware we supported. ;-)

@cperciva is it currently okay to commit to 14.2R release notes or would that be a problem? I noticed with BETA2 it got expanded.

In D47228#1083310, @bz wrote:

@cperciva is it currently okay to commit to 14.2R release notes or would that be a problem? I noticed with BETA2 it got expanded.

Yes, go ahead. The expansion replaces &hwlist.foo; with the list of devices from the HARDWARE section of the foo man page, that's all.