netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 01/13] net: ethernet: aquantia: Make and configuration files.

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Date:   Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:48:21 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     David VomLehn <vomlehn@...as.net>,
        Alexander Loktionov <Alexander.Loktionov@...antia.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Simon Edelhaus <Simon.Edelhaus@...antia.com>,
        Dmitrii Tarakanov <Dmitrii.Tarakanov@...antia.com>,
        Pavel Belous <Pavel.Belous@...antia.com>,
        Dmitry Bezrukov <Dmitry.Bezrukov@...antia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/13] net: ethernet: aquantia: Make and configuration
 files.

On 01/14/2017 10:42 AM, David VomLehn wrote:
> Yes, we did have it that way at one point. But...there is also the
> kernel philosophy of not putting in something for future expansion; you
> can always do it later... Honestly, I've vacillated on this particular one.

(please don't top post). There are several threads at the moment talking
about renaming driver directory (synopsys/stmmac, mlx5), doing it later
is certainly a possibility but is really frowned upon, since it will
later on make the life of people backporting -stable changes a lot harder.

Even if there is just one driver at the moment, I would go with a
dedicated directory for it, there are enough object files that justify
this choice IMHO.
-- 
Florian