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From: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:22:53 -0800

> In principle I  agree, but as I previously wrote backporting this
> driver is already a bear. We need to do something here as this is
> quickly approaching being infeasible to backport. Even if we don't
> restructure the directories I'd still like to see some effort towards
> feature modularization and isolation.

There simply is a lot changing all the time, no restructuring is going
to reduce that.  The driver simply gets a lot of churn.

Backporting such things through a bunch of file and/or directory
renames is seriously nothing but asking for more punishment.

That's why I am against it.