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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig
index 2d89bd0..edf7225 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@
default y
depends on NET_VENDOR_NATSEMI
---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
@@ -71,9 +69,7 @@
select CRC32
---help---
If you want to include a driver to support Nubus or LC-PDS
- Ethernet cards using an NS8390 chipset or its equivalent, say Y
- and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
+ Ethernet cards using an NS8390 chipset or its equivalent, say Y.
config MCF8390
tristate "ColdFire NS8390 based Ethernet support"
@@ -95,10 +91,9 @@
ATARI_ETHERNEC)
select CRC32
---help---
- 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>. Many Ethernet cards
- without a specific driver are compatible with NE2000.
+ If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y here.
+ Many Ethernet cards without a specific driver are compatible with
+ the NE2000.
If you have a PCI NE2000 card however, say N here and Y to "PCI
NE2000 and clone support" below.
@@ -114,8 +109,7 @@
This driver is for NE2000 compatible PCI cards. It will not work
with ISA NE2000 cards (they have their own driver, "NE2000/NE1000
support" below). If you have a PCI NE2000 network (Ethernet) card,
- say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
+ say Y here.
This driver also works for the following NE2000 clone cards:
RealTek RTL-8029 Winbond 89C940 Compex RL2000 KTI ET32P2
@@ -164,9 +158,7 @@
depends on ISA
select CRC32
---help---
- 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.
Important: There have been many reports that, with some motherboards
mixing an SMC Ultra and an Adaptec AHA154x SCSI card (or compatible,
@@ -183,9 +175,7 @@
depends on ISA
select CRC32
---help---
- 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 wd.