Re: [RFC 54/72] au1000_eth/mipsnet/tc35815: Move the MIPS drivers

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On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 09:13 -0700, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:59:05AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> 
> > Move the MIPS drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/mips/ and
> > make the necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.
> 
> NAck.
> 
> sni_82596.c is a driver for the same chip but used in particular
> Siemens-
> Nixdorf systems.  Lasi_82596 is an Intel NIC being used in PARISC
> systems.
> Not a good reason th throw PA-RISC drivers into the same directory
> after
> all PA-RISC has no relation to MIPS at all.  So maybe they should go
> into
> drivers/net/ethernet/i82596 or drivers/net/ethernet/intel.  And
> wherever
> they go, both drivers #include lib82596.c which your patch did not
> move
> around. 

My bad, I had grouped these drivers because they both used lib82596.c
and had thought I had moved that file as well.

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