From: Joe Perches <j...@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 <j...@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.
