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| author | Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> | 2007-02-10 03:48:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2007-02-17 16:56:33 -0500 |
| commit | 0b3581e26d4807f36b2294366d6fbd506c30d68a (patch) | |
| tree | 4d38e3786ce37512cdcdbae947a1022aa4e131ad /drivers | |
| parent | bdcac1878c80b068d8e073c1691d4bd09ba9996d (diff) | |
sk98lin: mark deprecated in Kconfig
sk98lin is scheduled for removal in July 2007. This patch makes the
deprecation more obvious in the configuration interface. FWIW, Gentoo have
been shipping a patch very similar to this for a long time.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index bd76b12c7c4..d9400ef8719 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -2125,14 +2125,16 @@ config SKY2 will be called sky2. This is recommended. config SK98LIN - tristate "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support" + tristate "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support (DEPRECATED)" depends on PCI ---help--- Say Y here if you have a Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. - This driver supports the original Yukon chipset. A cleaner driver is - also available (skge) which seems to work better than this one. + This driver supports the original Yukon chipset. This driver is + deprecated and will be removed from the kernel in the near future, + it has been replaced by the skge driver. skge is cleaner and + seems to work better. This driver does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset. A separate driver, sky2, is provided to support Yukon2-based adapters. |