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| author | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2015-06-21 16:28:02 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-06-23 06:50:35 -0700 |
| commit | 138b15ed877eff8149ae32c12fa1f4795c9cb4cf (patch) | |
| tree | 55aded9ec2d7671ce08d5efdff11e3b4afca6b9e /drivers/net/ethernet/dec | |
| parent | 69ae2f7acc05e9eb4a451e2728845e768586ddad (diff) | |
| download | linux-138b15ed877eff8149ae32c12fa1f4795c9cb4cf.tar.bz2 | |
drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO
This howto made sense in the 1990s when users had to manually configure
ISA cards with jumpers or vendor utilities, but with the implementation
of PCI it became increasingly less and less relevant, to the point where
it has been well over a decade since I last updated it. And there is
no value in anyone else taking over updating it either.
However the references to it continue to spread as boiler plate text
from one Kconfig file into the next. We are not doing end users any
favours by pointing them at this old document, so lets kill it with
fire, once and for all, to hopefully stop any further spread.
No code is changed in this commit, just Kconfig help text.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/dec')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/dec/Kconfig | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/Kconfig | 10 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/Kconfig index 68262aa57d01..740bbad5ed38 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/Kconfig @@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ config NET_VENDOR_DEC default y depends on PCI || EISA || CARDBUS ---help--- - If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y - and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. + If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y. Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/Kconfig index eb9ba6e97d04..1003201b5d80 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/Kconfig @@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ config DE2104X of this type. (If your card is NOT SMC EtherPower 10/100 PCI (smc9332dst), you can also try the driver for "Generic DECchip" cards, below. However, most people with a network card of this type - will say Y here.) Do read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. + will say Y here.) To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be called de2104x. @@ -50,8 +49,7 @@ config TULIP of this type. (If your card is NOT SMC EtherPower 10/100 PCI (smc9332dst), you can also try the driver for "Generic DECchip" cards, above. However, most people with a network card of this type - will say Y here.) Do read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. + will say Y here.) To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be called tulip. @@ -113,9 +111,7 @@ config DE4X5 ---help--- This is support for the DIGITAL series of PCI/EISA Ethernet cards. These include the DE425, DE434, DE435, DE450 and DE500 models. If - you have a network card of this type, say Y and read the - Ethernet-HOWTO, available from - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. More specific + you have a network card of this type, say Y. More specific information is contained in <file:Documentation/networking/de4x5.txt>. |