linux/drivers/net/ethernet/packetengines/Kconfig
Paul Gortmaker 138b15ed87 drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO
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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-23 06:50:35 -07:00

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#
# Packet engine device configuration
#
config NET_PACKET_ENGINE
bool "Packet Engine devices"
default y
depends on PCI
---help---
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all
the questions about packet engine devices. If you say Y, you will
be asked for your specific card in the following questions.
if NET_PACKET_ENGINE
config HAMACHI
tristate "Packet Engines Hamachi GNIC-II support"
depends on PCI
select MII
---help---
If you have a Gigabit Ethernet card of this type, say Y here.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be
called hamachi.
config YELLOWFIN
tristate "Packet Engines Yellowfin Gigabit-NIC support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
---help---
Say Y here if you have a Packet Engines G-NIC PCI Gigabit Ethernet
adapter or the SYM53C885 Ethernet controller. The Gigabit adapter is
used by the Beowulf Linux cluster project. See
<http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/yellowfin.html> for more
information about this driver in particular and Beowulf in general.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called yellowfin. This is recommended.
endif # NET_PACKET_ENGINE