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From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next v2 28/71] 8139*/atp/r8169/sc92031: Move the Realtek
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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:41:07 -0700
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On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 20:21 -0700, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> Indeed.  pci-skeleton was simply intended to illustrate a clean driver=
=20
> for a simple DMA-driven NIC.
>=20
> Honestly, it's so outdated now that deletion would be a better course.

If it would be useful, should we take the time to update pci-skeleton
driver?  Or will this be a maintenance issue going forward and deletion
is the best answer?

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