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| author | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2015-06-21 23:28:02 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-06-23 16:50:35 +0300 |
| commit | 138b15ed877eff8149ae32c12fa1f4795c9cb4cf (patch) | |
| tree | 55aded9ec2d7671ce08d5efdff11e3b4afca6b9e /drivers/net/ethernet/realtek | |
| parent | 69ae2f7acc05e9eb4a451e2728845e768586ddad (diff) | |
| download | linux-138b15ed877eff8149ae32c12fa1f4795c9cb4cf.tar.xz | |
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/realtek')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/Kconfig | 14 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/Kconfig index ae5d027096ed..7c69f4c8134d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/Kconfig @@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ config NET_VENDOR_REALTEK default y depends on PCI || (PARPORT && X86) ---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 @@ -24,8 +22,7 @@ config ATP select CRC32 ---help--- This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel - port. Read <file:drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/atp.c> as well as the - Ethernet-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, + port. Read the file <file:drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/atp.c> if you want to use this. If you intend to use this driver, you should have said N to the "Parallel printer support", because the two drivers don't like each other. @@ -40,9 +37,7 @@ config 8139CP select MII ---help--- This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on - the RTL8139C+ chips. If you have one of those, say Y and read - the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. + the RTL8139C+ chips. If you have one of those, say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 8139cp. This is recommended. @@ -54,8 +49,7 @@ config 8139TOO select MII ---help--- This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on - the RTL 8129/8130/8139 chips. If you have one of those, say Y and - read the Ethernet-HOWTO <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. + the RTL 8129/8130/8139 chips. If you have one of those, say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 8139too. This is recommended. |