From: Daniel Drake Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:48:17 +0000 (+0000) Subject: sk98lin: mark deprecated in Kconfig X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc1~74^2 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b3581e26d4807f36b2294366d6fbd506c30d68a;p=linux-2.6 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 Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index bd76b12c7c..d9400ef871 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 This driver is + deprecated and will be removed from the kernel in the near future, + it has been replaced by the skge driver.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.