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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>
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#
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# Alteon network device configuration
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#
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config NET_VENDOR_ALTEON
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bool "Alteon devices"
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default y
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depends on PCI
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---help---
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If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y.
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Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
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kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all
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the questions about Alteon cards. If you say Y, you will be asked for
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your specific card in the following questions.
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if NET_VENDOR_ALTEON
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config ACENIC
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tristate "Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit support"
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depends on PCI
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---help---
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Say Y here if you have an Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3C985(B), NetGear
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GA620, SGI Gigabit or Farallon PN9000-SX PCI Gigabit Ethernet
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adapter. The driver allows for using the Jumbo Frame option (9000
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bytes/frame) however it requires that your switches can handle this
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as well. To enable Jumbo Frames, add `mtu 9000' to your ifconfig
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line.
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To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
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module will be called acenic.
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config ACENIC_OMIT_TIGON_I
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bool "Omit support for old Tigon I based AceNICs"
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depends on ACENIC
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---help---
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Say Y here if you only have Tigon II based AceNICs and want to leave
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out support for the older Tigon I based cards which are no longer
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being sold (ie. the original Alteon AceNIC and 3Com 3C985 (non B
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version)). This will reduce the size of the driver object by
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app. 100KB. If you are not sure whether your card is a Tigon I or a
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Tigon II, say N here.
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The safe and default value for this is N.
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endif # NET_VENDOR_ALTEON
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