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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/3com | |
| parent | 69ae2f7acc05e9eb4a451e2728845e768586ddad (diff) | |
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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/3com')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/3com/Kconfig | 18 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/Kconfig index afaab4b2333f..5b7658bcf020 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/Kconfig @@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ config NET_VENDOR_3COM default y depends on ISA || EISA || PCI || PCMCIA ---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 @@ -23,8 +21,7 @@ config EL3 depends on (ISA || EISA) ---help--- If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to the 3Com - EtherLinkIII series, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available - from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. + EtherLinkIII series, say Y here. If your card is not working you may need to use the DOS setup disk to disable Plug & Play mode, and to select the default @@ -38,8 +35,7 @@ config 3C515 depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API ---help--- If you have a 3Com ISA EtherLink XL "Corkscrew" 3c515 Fast Ethernet - network card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. + network card, say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be called 3c515. @@ -78,9 +74,7 @@ config VORTEX "Tornado" (3c905) PCI "Hurricane" (3c555/3cSOHO) PCI - If you have such a card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, - available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. More - specific information is in + If you have such a card, say Y here. More specific information is in <file:Documentation/networking/vortex.txt> and in the comments at the beginning of <file:drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c>. @@ -97,9 +91,7 @@ config TYPHOON 3CR990SVR, 3CR990SVR95, 3CR990SVR97, 3CR990-FX-95 Server, 3CR990-FX-97 Server, 3C990B-TX-M, 3C990BSVR - If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read - the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. + If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be called typhoon. |