Maybe something like this:
Old, rare, and unsupported hardware should be exposed as ancient.
The drivers for these ancient hardwares are generally untested with
current kernels.
Joe Perches (2):
drivers/net: Create an ANCIENT_NETDEVICES symbol
chelsio: Move original cxgb driver into ancient subdirectory
drivers/net/Kconfig | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/ancient/Makefile | 1 +
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/Makefile | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/common.h | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/cphy.h | 0
.../ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/cpl5_cmd.h | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/cxgb2.c | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/elmer0.h | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/espi.c | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/espi.h | 0
.../ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/fpga_defs.h | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/gmac.h | 0
.../ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/mv88e1xxx.c | 0
.../ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/mv88e1xxx.h | 0
.../ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/mv88x201x.c | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/my3126.c | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/pm3393.c | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/regs.h | 0
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/sge.c | 0
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/sge.h | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/subr.c | 0
.../chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/suni1x10gexp_regs.h | 0
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/tp.c | 0
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/tp.h | 0
.../net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/vsc7326.c | 0
.../ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/vsc7326_reg.h | 0
28 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/ancient/Makefile
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/Makefile (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/common.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/cphy.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/cpl5_cmd.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/cxgb2.c (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/elmer0.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/espi.c (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/espi.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/fpga_defs.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/gmac.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/mv88e1xxx.c (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/mv88e1xxx.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/mv88x201x.c (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/my3126.c (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/pm3393.c (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/regs.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/sge.c (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/sge.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/subr.c (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/suni1x10gexp_regs.h
(100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/tp.c (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/tp.h (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/vsc7326.c (100%)
rename drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/{ => ancient}/cxgb/vsc7326_reg.h (100%)
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