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

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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:28:02 -0700

> 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.

You don't understand my concern, backporting patches to -stable
releases is more painful if you move the driver anywhere other
than where it has been for years.

I'm not entertaining this idea, sorry Joe.

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[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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