diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index f5533d1bda2e..7347bbf97f66 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -13145,7 +13145,7 @@ M:	Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
 M:	GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Supported
-F:	drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/
+F:	drivers/staging/qlge/
 
 QM1D1B0004 MEDIA DRIVER
 M:	Akihiro Tsukada <tskd08@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/Kconfig
index a391cf6ee4b2..55a29ec76680 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/Kconfig
@@ -66,15 +66,6 @@ config QLCNIC_HWMON
 
 	  This data is available via the hwmon sysfs interface.
 
-config QLGE
-	tristate "QLogic QLGE 10Gb Ethernet Driver Support"
-	depends on PCI
-	---help---
-	  This driver supports QLogic ISP8XXX 10Gb Ethernet cards.
-
-	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
-	  will be called qlge.
-
 config NETXEN_NIC
 	tristate "NetXen Multi port (1/10) Gigabit Ethernet NIC"
 	depends on PCI
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/Makefile b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/Makefile
index 6cd2e333a5fc..1ae4a0743bd5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_QLA3XXX) += qla3xxx.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_QLCNIC) += qlcnic/
-obj-$(CONFIG_QLGE) += qlge/
 obj-$(CONFIG_NETXEN_NIC) += netxen/
 obj-$(CONFIG_QED) += qed/
 obj-$(CONFIG_QEDE)+= qede/
diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
index 7c96a01eef6c..0b8a614be11e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
@@ -120,4 +120,6 @@ source "drivers/staging/kpc2000/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/staging/isdn/Kconfig"
 
+source "drivers/staging/qlge/Kconfig"
+
 endif # STAGING
diff --git a/drivers/staging/Makefile b/drivers/staging/Makefile
index fcaac9693b83..741152511a10 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/staging/Makefile
@@ -50,3 +50,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EROFS_FS)		+= erofs/
 obj-$(CONFIG_FIELDBUS_DEV)     += fieldbus/
 obj-$(CONFIG_KPC2000)		+= kpc2000/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI)		+= isdn/
+obj-$(CONFIG_QLGE)		+= qlge/
diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/qlge/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ae9ed2c5300b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+config QLGE
+	tristate "QLogic QLGE 10Gb Ethernet Driver Support"
+	depends on PCI
+	help
+	This driver supports QLogic ISP8XXX 10Gb Ethernet cards.
+
+	To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be
+	called qlge.
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/Makefile b/drivers/staging/qlge/Makefile
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/Makefile
rename to drivers/staging/qlge/Makefile
diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO b/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d17d6399d86f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+* commit 7c734359d350 ("qlge: Size RX buffers based on MTU.", v2.6.33-rc1)
+  introduced dead code in the receive routines, which should be rewritten
+  anyways by the admission of the author himself, see the comment above
+  ql_build_rx_skb(). That function is now used to handle packets that
+  underwent header splitting but it still contains code to handle non split
+  cases.
+* truesize accounting is incorrect (ex: a 9000B frame has skb->truesize 10280
+  while containing two frags of order-1 allocations, ie. >16K)
+* while in that area, using 8k buffers for 9k frames seems to be an especially
+  poor choice...
+* in the "chain of large buffers" case, the driver uses an skb allocated with
+  head room but only puts data in the frags.
+* rename "rx" queues to "completion" queues. Calling tx completion queues "rx
+  queues" is confusing.
+* struct rx_ring is used for rx and tx completions, with some members relevant
+  to one case only
+* there is an inordinate amount of disparate debugging code, most of which is
+  of questionable value. In particular, qlge_dbg.c has hundreds of lines of
+  code bitrotting away in ifdef land (doesn't compile since commit
+  18c49b91777c ("qlge: do vlan cleanup", v3.1-rc1), 8 years ago).
+* triggering an ethtool regdump will instead hexdump a 176k struct to dmesg
+  depending on some module parameters.
+* the flow control implementation in firmware is buggy, disable it by default
+* some structures are initialized redundantly (ex. memset 0 after
+  alloc_etherdev)
+* the driver has a habit of using runtime checks where compile time checks are
+  possible (ex. ql_free_rx_buffers(), ql_alloc_rx_buffers())
+* reorder struct members to avoid holes if it doesn't impact performance
+* in terms of namespace, the driver uses either qlge_, ql_ (used by
+  other qlogic drivers, with clashes, ex: ql_sem_spinlock) or nothing (with
+  clashes, ex: struct ob_mac_iocb_req). Rename everything to use the "qlge_"
+  prefix.
+* avoid legacy/deprecated apis (ex. replace pci_dma_*, replace pci_enable_msi,
+  use pci_iomap)
+* some "while" loops could be rewritten with simple "for", ex.
+  ql_wait_reg_rdy(), ql_start_rx_ring())
+* remove duplicate and useless comments
+* fix weird line wrapping (all over, ex. the ql_set_routing_reg() calls in
+  qlge_set_multicast_list()).
+* fix weird indentation (all over, ex. the for loops in qlge_get_stats())
+* fix checkpatch issues
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge.h b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge.h
rename to drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c
rename to drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
rename to drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
rename to drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_mpi.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_mpi.c
rename to drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c
