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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/15] dec netdev: relocate DIGITAL based drivers to
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:29:39 -0700 (PDT)
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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