Re: BUG in 2.6.22-rc2-mm1: NIC module b44.c broken (Broadcom 4400)

From: Benoit Boissinot
Date: Sat May 26 2007 - 14:41:24 EST


On 5/26/07, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Saturday 26 May 2007 19:04:04 Uwe Bugla wrote:
> Yes, sure! But the help text is very unlucky and humble, and it is not clear
> enough in the sense of being distinctive enough, just clear and
> comprehensive.

Why don't you simply submit a patch to change the helptext then?

Is that ok ?

Discourage people from deselecting B44_PCI

Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

--- kernel.orig/drivers/net/Kconfig 2007-05-26 20:38:02.000000000 +0200
+++ kernel/drivers/net/Kconfig 2007-05-26 20:38:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@
help
Support for b44 PCI devices.

- Say Y
+ Unless you know what you are doing, say Y here.

config FORCEDETH
tristate "nForce Ethernet support"
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