From: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose@wanadoo•es>
To: jgarzik@redhat•com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl•org>, netdev@oss•sgi.com
Subject: [PATCH] detailled bcm help - 2.6.3
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:33:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <403A011D.1050909@wanadoo.es> (raw)
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This patch adds more realistic information about bcm NICs.
People only know the commercial names and not about chips names.
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x86-64 GenuineIntel
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--- 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
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
+ This driver supports Broadcom BCM440X based 10/100 Ethernet cards.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read
<file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. 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.
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