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authorDaniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>2007-02-10 03:48:17 +0000
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2007-02-17 16:56:33 -0500
commit0b3581e26d4807f36b2294366d6fbd506c30d68a (patch)
tree4d38e3786ce37512cdcdbae947a1022aa4e131ad /drivers
parentbdcac1878c80b068d8e073c1691d4bd09ba9996d (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/Kconfig8
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+ it has been replaced by the skge driver.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.