From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xose Vazquez Perez Subject: [PATCH] detailled bcm help - 2.6.3 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:33:17 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <403A011D.1050909@wanadoo.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050307040908070904040101" Return-path: To: jgarzik@redhat.com, Andrew Morton , netdev@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050307040908070904040101 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This patch adds more realistic information about bcm NICs. People only know the commercial names and not about chips names. -- x86-64 GenuineIntel --------------050307040908070904040101 Content-Type: text/plain; name="bcm-help.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="bcm-help.diff" --- linux-2.6.2/drivers/net/Kconfig 2004-02-20 14:39:40.000000000 +0100 +++ n/drivers/net/Kconfig 2004-02-23 14:17:23.000000000 +0100 @@ -1275,9 +1275,7 @@ tristate "Broadcom 4400 ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL help - If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and - read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from - . + This driver supports Broadcom BCM440X based 10/100 Ethernet cards. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read . The module will be @@ -2056,7 +2054,7 @@ tristate "Broadcom Tigon3 support" depends on PCI help - This driver supports Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet cards. + This driver supports Broadcom NetXtreme BCM570X based gigabit Ethernet cards. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called tg3. This is recommended. --------------050307040908070904040101--