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| author | matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com> | 2011-06-12 11:17:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-07-01 15:12:03 -0700 |
| commit | 156faf9080e0acf2b301c982e7a77cd6fbb2d0ad (patch) | |
| tree | 730a11ec8256c03f80f5e5d5020494ab5f63031f /drivers/base/Kconfig | |
| parent | 113647a281037d8b6f32e07f42a1328c7cd3da3b (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-156faf9080e0acf2b301c982e7a77cd6fbb2d0ad.zip op-kernel-dev-156faf9080e0acf2b301c982e7a77cd6fbb2d0ad.tar.gz | |
driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message
The help message for the configuration variable was inconsistent
with the way "make firmware_install" really works.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 5fe7fd2..52c6758 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs' that are used by various drivers. The recommended way to - use these is to run "make firmware_install" and to copy the - resulting binary files created in usr/lib/firmware/ of the - kernel tree to /lib/firmware/ on your system so that they can - be loaded by userspace helpers on request. + use these is to run "make firmware_install", which, after + converting ihex files to binary, copies all of the needed + binary files in firmware/ to /lib/firmware/ on your system so + that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request. Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find |
