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

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:28:02 -0700

On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 22:11 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
> 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.