Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:11:53 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old hardware | From | David Miller <> |
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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.
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