From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH next] drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 06:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20150623.065103.1947570113230408149.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1434918482-22874-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:33571 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754904AbbFWNjN (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:39:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1434918482-22874-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Paul Gortmaker 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 Applied, thanks Paul.