Commit c6f0d75a authored by Daniel Drake's avatar Daniel Drake Committed by Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] Clarify help text of SKGE/SK98LIN/SKY2

Some users have commented that it is unclear which driver they should be
using for their Marvell/SysKonnect network adapter, and which ones
are/aren't interchangable.

This patch attempts to reduce the confusion.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
parent 0febb720
...@@ -2034,13 +2034,28 @@ config SKGE ...@@ -2034,13 +2034,28 @@ config SKGE
It does not support the link failover and network management It does not support the link failover and network management
features that "portable" vendor supplied sk98lin driver does. features that "portable" vendor supplied sk98lin driver does.
This driver supports adapters based on the original Yukon chipset:
Marvell 88E8001, Belkin F5D5005, CNet GigaCard, DLink DGE-530T,
Linksys EG1032/EG1064, 3Com 3C940/3C940B, SysKonnect SK-9871/9872.
It does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset: a separate driver,
sky2, is provided for Yukon2-based adapters.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called skge. This is recommended.
config SKY2 config SKY2
tristate "SysKonnect Yukon2 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" tristate "SysKonnect Yukon2 support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
select CRC32 select CRC32
---help--- ---help---
This driver support the Marvell Yukon 2 Gigabit Ethernet adapter. This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the the
Marvell Yukon 2 chipset:
Marvell 88E8021/88E8022/88E8035/88E8036/88E8038/88E8050/88E8052/
88E8053/88E8055/88E8061/88E8062, SysKonnect SK-9E21D/SK-9S21
This driver does not support the original Yukon chipset: a seperate
driver, skge, is provided for Yukon-based adapters.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called sky2. This is recommended. will be called sky2. This is recommended.
...@@ -2050,8 +2065,15 @@ config SK98LIN ...@@ -2050,8 +2065,15 @@ config SK98LIN
depends on PCI depends on PCI
---help--- ---help---
Say Y here if you have a Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx Say Y here if you have a Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx
compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. The following adapters are supported compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.
by this driver:
This driver supports the original Yukon chipset. A cleaner driver is
also available (skge) which seems to work better than this one.
This driver does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset. A seperate
driver, sky2, is provided to support Yukon2-based adapters.
The following adapters are supported by this driver:
- 3Com 3C940 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter - 3Com 3C940 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter
- 3Com 3C941 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter - 3Com 3C941 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter
- Allied Telesyn AT-2970LX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter - Allied Telesyn AT-2970LX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
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