netdev - Re: [net-next v2 28/71] 8139*/atp/r8169/sc92031: Move the Realtek drivers

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Message-Id: <20110801.204840.1467588276691539635.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:48:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jgarzik@...ox.com
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	nic_swsd@...ltek.com, romieu@...zoreil.com, becker@...ld.com
Subject: Re: [net-next v2 28/71] 8139*/atp/r8169/sc92031: Move the Realtek
 drivers

From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:21:20 -0400

> On 08/01/2011 08:24 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 20:26 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>>> Move the Realtek drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/ and make
>>> the necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.
>> [...]
>>
>> Does it really make sense to move the pci-skeleton driver?  Although
>> it
>> includes hardware access specific to RTL8139 chips, that's not really
>> the point of it.
> 
> Indeed.  pci-skeleton was simply intended to illustrate a clean driver
> for a simple DMA-driven NIC.
> 
> Honestly, it's so outdated now that deletion would be a better course.

Yeah, this is probably true.
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