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[PATCH] detailled bcm help - 2.6.3

To: jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PATCH] detailled bcm help - 2.6.3
From: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:33:17 +0100
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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

--- 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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