Re: Why is tulip in its own directory (at least to 2.4.8) ?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2001 - 15:33:49 EST


On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Ken Moffat wrote:
> I've just changed the NIC on my main box from a natsemi to a tulip. The
> natsemi module was in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net along
> with the ppp modules, but the tulip module is in a tulip subdirectory.
>
> Is there a good reason for this ?

A sane organization. At least two more tulip-alikes are moving into
that directory in 2.5, even though they will remain separate drivers.

"8390" and "lance" sub-directories are also coming in 2.5.

        Jeff

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