From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15] RFC: create drivers/net/legacy for ISA, EISA, MCA drivers Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:13:52 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <1288315159-1350-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1288316896.1836.41.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101029094050.GA1835290@jupiter.n2.diac24.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Joe Perches , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Lamparter Return-path: Received: from eddie.linux-mips.org ([78.24.191.182]:49365 "EHLO cvs.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756805Ab0J2KNx (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:13:53 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:54585 "EHLO localhost.localdomain" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1491031Ab0J2KNw (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:13:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20101029094050.GA1835290@jupiter.n2.diac24.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, David Lamparter 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 :) What's the difference? -- that's a change of the name only you should be proud of! ;) I have seen plenty of these Vortex/Boomerang/Cyclone cards in various configurations and still have a couple myself, but I fail to recall any that would be less than 8 years old, which is about the age of my newest FDDI stuff (updated by the manufacturer to universal PCI and HP-branded because of the DEC/Compaq acquisition) which has been declared "obviously obsolete", so why shouldn't this equipment be either? ;) Maciej