Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old hardware

From	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old hardware
Date	2016-03-19 03:30 +0100
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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.

Thread

[PATCH] net: consolidate lock/unlock into unlock_wait Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org> - 2016-03-18 10:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] net: consolidate lock/unlock into unlock_wait David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-03-18 22:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] net: consolidate lock/unlock into unlock_wait Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-03-18 23:40 +0100
      [RFC net-next 2/2] chelsio: Move original cxgb driver into ancient subdirectory Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-03-19 01:40 +0100
      [RFC net-next 1/2] drivers/net: Create an ANCIENT_NETDEVICES symbol Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-03-19 01:40 +0100
      [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old hardware Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-03-19 01:40 +0100
        Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old  hardware David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-03-19 03:20 +0100
          Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old  hardware Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-03-19 03:30 +0100
            Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old  hardware David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-03-19 04:20 +0100
              Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old  hardware Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-03-19 16:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] net: consolidate lock/unlock into unlock_wait Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at> - 2016-03-19 09:30 +0100

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