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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:48:16 -0500 From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@...il.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PULL] Miscellaneous trivialities On 08/15/2013 04:44:01 AM, Michael Witten wrote: > I've been sitting on some trivial patches for a while, and I'd just > like to get them out of the way. > > Here is the series: > > [1] Docs: Kconfig: For readability, offset modifiers with commas > [2] Docs: Kconfig: Use consistent whitespace indentation > [3] Docs: Kconfig: Clean up the radiotap documentation > [4] Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers' > [5] Docs: Replace `hotplug' with `udev' > [6] DRM: comment: halve -> half > [7] DRM: comment: gdm_proc_lists -> drm_proc_lists > [8] DRM: cleanup: Remove unused `gamma_size' > > Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 | 5 +- > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 3 - > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c | 4 +- > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/Kconfig | 102 > ++++++++++++++++---------------- > fs/btrfs/Kconfig | 3 +- > init/Kconfig | 4 +- > 7 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-) > > Those commits merge cleanly with: > > 28fbc8b6a29c849a3f03a6b05010d4b584055665 > Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip > (2013-08-13 16:58:17 -0700) > > and they can be pulled from here: > > https://github.com/mfwitten/linux.git trivial/misc/0 > > While it is much easier to review the individual commits, a combined > diff is appended to the end of this email in case that is convenient. > > Sincerely > Michael Witten > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 > b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 > index b7658be..aeb6494 100644 > --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 > +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 > @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ You can set the debug level via: > > Where $VALUE would be a number in the case of this sysfs entry. The > input to sysfs files does not have to be a number. For example, the > -firmware loader used by hotplug utilizes sysfs entries for > transferring > +firmware loader used by udev utilizes sysfs entries for transferring > the firmware image from user space into the driver. Hotplug is the name of the kernel subsystem, udev was one implementation of a userspace agent for it. A different implementation would be mdev (in busybox), some linux from scratch types are still using variants of diethotplug, there's a fork of udev called eudev that avoids systemd... And these days, firmware loading is mostly done directly by the kernel. > The Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux exposes sysfs > entries > @@ -425,8 +425,7 @@ are made to the driver. Currently, there are no > major changes planned. > ---------------------------------------------- > > The driver requires a firmware image, download it and extract the > -files under /lib/firmware (or wherever your hotplug's firmware.agent > -will look for firmware files) > +files under /lib/firmware (or wherever udev will look for firmware > files) Again, hotplug is correct. Rob-- 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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