Re: [PATCH] Use Kconfig flag to remove support of deprecated BE2/BE3 adapters

[David Miller]

From: Petr Oros <poros@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon,  6 Aug 2018 14:12:28 +0200

>   Add flags to remove support of deprecated BE2/BE3 adapters.
>   BE2 disable will reduce .ko size by 2kb and BE3 by 3kb.
>   Disable both will reduce .ko size by 9kb.
> 
>   With dissabled support is also removed coresponding PCI IDs
>   and codepath with [BE2|BE3|BEx]_chip checks.
> 
>   New help style in Kconfig
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Oros <poros@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sorry, I'm not too hot about this.

Imagine being one of the people who has one of these cards.

Pulling out detection and working'ness of devices from a driver
is a big step backwards, and I'm sorry I will don't want to be
part of something that facilitates this.

The S390 folks tried something similar in the past and I reject
those changes too.

Thanks.