sk98lin: mark deprecated in Kconfig
sk98lin is scheduled for removal in July 2007. This patch makes the
deprecation more obvious in the configuration interface. FWIW, Gentoo have
been shipping a patch very similar to this for a long time.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index bd76b12..d9400ef 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -2125,14 +2125,16 @@
will be called sky2. This is recommended.
config SK98LIN
- tristate "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support"
+ tristate "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support (DEPRECATED)"
depends on PCI
---help---
Say Y here if you have a Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx
compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.
- This driver supports the original Yukon chipset. A cleaner driver is
- also available (skge) which seems to work better than this one.
+ This driver supports the original Yukon chipset. This driver is
+ deprecated and will be removed from the kernel in the near future,
+ it has been replaced by the skge driver. skge is cleaner and
+ seems to work better.
This driver does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset. A separate
driver, sky2, is provided to support Yukon2-based adapters.