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aginst 2.4.25
This patch adds more realistic information about bcm NICs. People only know the commercial names and not about chips names.
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Documentation/Configure.help +2 -4
@@ -11859,7 +11859,7 @@ Broadcom Tigon3 support CONFIG_TIGON3 - This driver supports Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet cards. + This driver supports Broadcom NetXtreme BCM570X based gigabit Ethernet cards. If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
@@ -12348,9 +12348,7 @@ Broadcom 4400 ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL) CONFIG_B44 - If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and - read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. + This driver supports Broadcom BCM440X based 10/100 Ethernet cards. If you want to compile this as a module ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
Quoted 4 lines · On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:31:22 +0100 Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]> 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 :)