From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 06:51:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150623.065103.1947570113230408149.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1434918482-22874-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:28:02 -0400
> 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>
Applied, thanks Paul.
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2015-06-21 20:28 [PATCH next] drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO Paul Gortmaker
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