netdev - Re: [PATCH next] drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2015 06:51:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete
 Ethernet-HOWTO

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:28:02 -0400

> 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@...driver.com>

Applied, thanks Paul.
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