From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] detailled bcm help-2.4.25 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:54:54 -0800 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040223095454.488ace1f.davem@redhat.com> References: <403A00AA.3010707@wanadoo.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgarzik@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com Return-path: To: Xose Vazquez Perez In-Reply-To: <403A00AA.3010707@wanadoo.es> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:31:22 +0100 Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > aginst 2.4.25 > > This patch adds more realistic information about bcm NICs. > People only know the commercial names and not about chips names. Please leave the tigon3, and say something like "tigon3 chips, also commonly known as NetXtreme..." but even that is garbage because 3com and Alteon call the 57xx based products something else too. This is why I really hate changes like this :)