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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old
 hardware
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:11:53 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:33:29 -0700

> Maybe something like this:
> 
> Old, rare, and unsupported hardware should be exposed as ancient.
> 
> The drivers for these ancient hardwares are generally untested with
> current kernels.

Moving drivers has a long term maintainence cost.

If they've moved into drivers/net proper, we have to maintain
them there forever.