From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old hardware Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:28:02 -0700 Message-ID: <1458354482.26915.35.camel@perches.com> References: <1458340518.26915.30.camel@perches.com> <20160318.221153.997255526626920777.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtprelay0237.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.237]:46303 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751086AbcCSC2G (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:28:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160318.221153.997255526626920777.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 22:11 -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Joe Perches > Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:33:29 -0700 >=20 > > Maybe something like this: > >=A0 > > Old, rare, and unsupported hardware should be exposed as ancient. > >=A0 > > The drivers for these ancient hardwares are generally untested with > > current kernels. >=20 > Moving drivers has a long term maintainence cost. >=20 > If they've moved into drivers/net proper, we have to maintain > them there forever. I don't doubt that. All files are still in drivers/net, just possibly in separate subdirectories for easier visibility to determine if changes like what were proposed for cxgb should actually be done or not.