Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754597AbcCSCMK (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:12:10 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:58492 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754357AbcCSCL6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:11:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:11:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20160318.221153.997255526626920777.davem@davemloft.net> To: joe@perches.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] Create ancient subdirectories for old hardware From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <1458340518.26915.30.camel@perches.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 401 Lines: 14 From: Joe Perches 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.