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

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Message-ID: <1312257521.2294.13.camel@jtkirshe-mobl>
Date:	Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:58:40 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"jgarzik@...ox.com" <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	"bhutchings@...arflare.com" <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>,
	"sassmann@...hat.com" <sassmann@...hat.com>,
	"nic_swsd@...ltek.com" <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
	"romieu@...zoreil.com" <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	"becker@...ld.com" <becker@...ld.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next v2 28/71] 8139*/atp/r8169/sc92031: Move the Realtek
 drivers

On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 20:48 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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 Honestly, it's so outdated now that deletion would be a better course.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.

Ok, I will remove it.

I will put together a v3 of the series.

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