From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Gary Zambrano <zambrano@broadcom.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: b44-ssb: Be more verbose in help texts
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 17:12:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705271712.21165.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
Some people have difficulties in understanding that the
option "Broadcom 440x PCI device support" is for PCI devices,
so they disable it and complain that it doesn't work anymore.
Try to prevent that with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Index: bu3sch-wireless-dev/MAINTAINERS
===================================================================
--- bu3sch-wireless-dev.orig/MAINTAINERS 2007-05-27 16:53:29.000000000 +0200
+++ bu3sch-wireless-dev/MAINTAINERS 2007-05-27 16:54:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -921,6 +921,12 @@
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
S: Supported
+BROADCOM B44 - SONICS SILICON BACKPLANE (SSB) BITS
+P: Michael Buesch
+M: mb@bu3sch.de
+L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
+S: Maintained
+
BROADCOM BNX2 GIGABIT ETHERNET DRIVER
P: Michael Chan
M: mchan@broadcom.com
Index: bu3sch-wireless-dev/drivers/net/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- bu3sch-wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/Kconfig 2007-05-27 16:44:39.000000000 +0200
+++ bu3sch-wireless-dev/drivers/net/Kconfig 2007-05-27 16:57:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -1387,28 +1387,35 @@
called apricot.
config B44
- tristate "Broadcom 4400 ethernet support"
+ tristate "Broadcom 440x/47xx ethernet support"
select SSB
select MII
help
- If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and
- read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
+ If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y
+ or M and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
+ If you have a Broadcom 440x PCI device (and if you don't
+ know, you _do_ have one) you must also select the options
+ "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers" above and
+ "Broadcom 440x PCI device support" below.
+
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read
<file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be
called b44.
config B44_PCI
- bool "Broadcom 4400 PCI device support"
+ bool "Broadcom 440x PCI device support"
depends on B44 && NET_PCI
select SSB_PCIHOST
select SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE
default y
help
- Support for b44 PCI devices.
+ Support for Broadcom 440x PCI devices.
- Say Y
+ Say Y, unless you know what you are doing.
+ If you say N here I will _not_ listen to your
+ bugreports!
config FORCEDETH
tristate "nForce Ethernet support"
--
Greetings Michael.
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