From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Lamparter Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15] RFC: create drivers/net/legacy for ISA, EISA, MCA drivers Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:40:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20101029094050.GA1835290@jupiter.n2.diac24.net> References: <1288315159-1350-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1288316896.1836.41.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Perches Return-path: Received: from spaceboyz.net ([87.106.131.203]:36453 "EHLO spaceboyz.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756687Ab0J2Jk7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:40:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1288316896.1836.41.camel@Joe-Laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 06:48:16PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 21:19 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > The initial target is things like ISA/EISA/MCA drivers, and with > > that alone, we can get close to 90 files out of drivers/net. > > Plus, by having a semi-defined description for legacy as being > > "drivers more than 10 years old" we'll always have a destination > > for drivers as they fall out of maintainership and use. > > I think legacy is "old and not sold or used much anymore". > > I believe you're not moving 3c59x as that's relatively > still popular even though it's nearly 15 years old. > > Or maybe that was just an oversight... The 3c59x driver also drives a few not-that-old 100MBit cards like "3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] [10b7:9055] (rev 64)" and these are quite common still :) -David