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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:40:51 +0200 From: David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net> To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15] RFC: create drivers/net/legacy for ISA, EISA, MCA drivers On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 06:48:16PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 21:19 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > The initial target is things like ISA/EISA/MCA drivers, and with > > that alone, we can get close to 90 files out of drivers/net. > > Plus, by having a semi-defined description for legacy as being > > "drivers more than 10 years old" we'll always have a destination > > for drivers as they fall out of maintainership and use. > > I think legacy is "old and not sold or used much anymore". > > I believe you're not moving 3c59x as that's relatively > still popular even though it's nearly 15 years old. > > Or maybe that was just an oversight... The 3c59x driver also drives a few not-that-old 100MBit cards like "3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] [10b7:9055] (rev 64)" and these are quite common still :) -David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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