Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old hardware | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:28:02 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 22:11 -0400, David Miller wrote: > 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.
I don't doubt that.
All files are still in drivers/net, just possibly in separate subdirectories for easier visibility to determine if changes like what were proposed for cxgb should actually be done or not.
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