From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: macro@linux-mips.org
Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/15] dec netdev: relocate DIGITAL based drivers to legacy
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:29:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101028.212939.189691515.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1010290516110.25426@eddie.linux-mips.org>
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:21:35 +0100 (BST)
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>
>> DEC as a name brand has been gone for over 10 years, and these
>> drivers represent technology from the 1990's like the venerable
>> ISA bus. Hence relocate them to the legacy dir.
>
> NAK for the TURBOchannel bits (defxx.[ch] and declance.c) unless you give
> a plausible justification. You won't get these drivers offered unless you
> have the bus in your system anyway, and if you do than you don't want to
> have them hidden somewhere in the corner. If you see anything wrong with
> these drivers, then please do let me know.
>
> Also defxx.c is PCI too (apart from being EISA and TC).
PCI things can be legacy too.
This is not about a specific bus technology, it's simply for
"really old stuff" so we can declutter the top-level of drivers/net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-29 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-29 1:19 [PATCH 0/15] RFC: create drivers/net/legacy for ISA, EISA, MCA drivers Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 01/15] net: introduce legacy dir to absorb 10Mbit, ISA, EISA drivers Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 02/15] 3c501: relocate ancient 8 bit ISA driver to legacy dir Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 03/15] de6xx: relocate ancient parallel port eth drivers to legacy Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 04/15] sun3: Relocate the sun3 specific lance/83596 " Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 05/15] dec netdev: relocate DIGITAL based " Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 4:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-29 4:29 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-10-29 4:54 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-29 5:46 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-29 5:53 ` David Miller
2010-10-29 5:47 ` David Miller
2010-10-29 5:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-29 5:53 ` David Miller
2010-10-29 6:37 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 06/15] netdev: relocate i8258x and i8259x " Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 07/15] lance: relocate legacy 7990 " Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 08/15] netdev: relocate toplevel 8390 based drivers to legacy dir Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 09/15] netdev: relocate remaining ISA 3Com cards " Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 10/15] netdev: relocate more one-off drivers to the " Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 11/15] netdev: kill off the concept of NET_VENDOR_FOO Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 12/15] netdev: relocate sb1000 ISA cable modem driver to legacy Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 13/15] netdev: kill off NET_ISA Kconfig option Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 14/15] MAINTAINERS: updates for new drivers/net/legacy dir Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 15/15] netdev: relocate LICENSE.SRC to legacy Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 1:48 ` [PATCH 0/15] RFC: create drivers/net/legacy for ISA, EISA, MCA drivers Joe Perches
2010-10-29 9:40 ` David Lamparter
2010-10-29 10:13 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-29 21:26 ` Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-29 22:08 ` Joe Perches
2010-10-30 0:01 ` Jeff Kirsher
2010-11-04 21:20 ` Paul Gortmaker
2010-11-05 2:28 ` Jeff Kirsher
2010-11-05 12:51 ` Paul Gortmaker
2010-11-18 23:52 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-19 0:34 ` Jeff Kirsher
[not found] ` <alpine.LNX.2.01.1012161253560.3000@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
2010-12-16 12:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-17 9:51 ` Jeff Kirsher
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