netdev - Re: create drivers/net/mdio and move mdio drivers into it

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Date:   Sun, 19 Feb 2017 21:03:22 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     YUAN Linyu <Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "cugyly@....com" <cugyly@....com>
Subject: Re: create drivers/net/mdio and move mdio drivers into it



On 02/19/2017 04:20 PM, YUAN Linyu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an idea to create drivers/net/mdio and move mdio drivers(drivers/net/phy/mdio-* | drivers/net/ethernet/xxx/mdio-yyy | ) into it.
> 
> Do you think it is acceptable ?

What problem are you trying to fix by doing such a move? Moving files
around mean that making stable backports are going to be much more painful.

So without further explanation, does not sound like such a great idea.
-- 
Florian