netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/15] RFC: create drivers/net/legacy for ISA, EISA, MCA drivers

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Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:13:52 +0100 (BST)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>
cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15] RFC: create drivers/net/legacy for ISA, EISA, MCA
 drivers

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, David Lamparter 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 :)

 What's the difference? -- that's a change of the name only you should be 
proud of! ;)

 I have seen plenty of these Vortex/Boomerang/Cyclone cards in various 
configurations and still have a couple myself, but I fail to recall any 
that would be less than 8 years old, which is about the age of my newest 
FDDI stuff (updated by the manufacturer to universal PCI and HP-branded 
because of the DEC/Compaq acquisition) which has been declared "obviously 
obsolete", so why shouldn't this equipment be either? ;)

  Maciej
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