From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/13] net: ethernet: aquantia: Make and configuration files. Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:48:21 -0800 Message-ID: <6aa256dd-dae4-60f2-ef7c-ef8b8e5b81e2@gmail.com> References: <5a7c1fcc-2bb7-f41f-e136-8072efca7307@texas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S . Miller" , Simon Edelhaus , Dmitrii Tarakanov , Pavel Belous , Dmitry Bezrukov To: David VomLehn , Alexander Loktionov , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f65.google.com ([209.85.218.65]:36403 "EHLO mail-oi0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751838AbdANSz2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:55:28 -0500 Received: by mail-oi0-f65.google.com with SMTP id u143so9801553oif.3 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:55:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5a7c1fcc-2bb7-f41f-e136-8072efca7307@texas.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/14/2017 10:42 AM, David VomLehn wrote: > Yes, we did have it that way at one point. But...there is also the > kernel philosophy of not putting in something for future expansion; you > can always do it later... Honestly, I've vacillated on this particular one. (please don't top post). There are several threads at the moment talking about renaming driver directory (synopsys/stmmac, mlx5), doing it later is certainly a possibility but is really frowned upon, since it will later on make the life of people backporting -stable changes a lot harder. Even if there is just one driver at the moment, I would go with a dedicated directory for it, there are enough object files that justify this choice IMHO. -- Florian