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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:05:15 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: matt mooney <mfm@...eddisk.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> Subject: [PATCH 05/11] driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message From: matt mooney <mfm@...eddisk.com> The help message for the configuration variable was inconsistent with the way "make firmware_install" really works. Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@...eddisk.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> --- 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 -- 1.7.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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