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| author | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2008-03-08 18:27:20 -0500 |
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| committer | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2008-03-13 19:56:59 -0400 |
| commit | 0a8da30dc7bd6828f42d9f0585367731f634a0c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c122e305f2a5741709677ca497ab50d96c16cc8 /drivers/firewire/Kconfig | |
| parent | a2cdebe33f4c40a1bc7f66522303df89d5026cb4 (diff) | |
firewire: update Kconfig help text
Remove some less necessary information, point out that video1394 and
dv1394 should be blacklisted along with ohci1394.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firewire/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firewire/Kconfig | 50 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/Kconfig b/drivers/firewire/Kconfig index fe9e768cfbc4..25bdc2dd9ce1 100644 --- a/drivers/firewire/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/firewire/Kconfig | |||
| @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ | |||
| 1 | # -*- shell-script -*- | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | comment "An alternative FireWire stack is available with EXPERIMENTAL=y" | 1 | comment "An alternative FireWire stack is available with EXPERIMENTAL=y" |
| 4 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL=n | 2 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL=n |
| 5 | 3 | ||
| @@ -21,27 +19,7 @@ config FIREWIRE | |||
| 21 | NOTE: | 19 | NOTE: |
| 22 | 20 | ||
| 23 | You should only build ONE of the stacks, unless you REALLY know what | 21 | You should only build ONE of the stacks, unless you REALLY know what |
| 24 | you are doing. If you install both, you should configure them only as | 22 | you are doing. |
| 25 | modules rather than link them statically, and you should blacklist one | ||
| 26 | of the concurrent low-level drivers in /etc/modprobe.conf. Add either | ||
| 27 | |||
| 28 | blacklist firewire-ohci | ||
| 29 | or | ||
| 30 | blacklist ohci1394 | ||
| 31 | |||
| 32 | there depending on which driver you DON'T want to have auto-loaded. | ||
| 33 | You can optionally do the same with the other IEEE 1394/ FireWire | ||
| 34 | drivers. | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | If you have an old modprobe which doesn't implement the blacklist | ||
| 37 | directive, use either | ||
| 38 | |||
| 39 | install firewire-ohci /bin/true | ||
| 40 | or | ||
| 41 | install ohci1394 /bin/true | ||
| 42 | |||
| 43 | and so on, depending on which modules you DON't want to have | ||
| 44 | auto-loaded. | ||
| 45 | 23 | ||
| 46 | config FIREWIRE_OHCI | 24 | config FIREWIRE_OHCI |
| 47 | tristate "Support for OHCI FireWire host controllers" | 25 | tristate "Support for OHCI FireWire host controllers" |
| @@ -57,8 +35,24 @@ config FIREWIRE_OHCI | |||
| 57 | 35 | ||
| 58 | NOTE: | 36 | NOTE: |
| 59 | 37 | ||
| 60 | If you also build ohci1394 of the classic stack, blacklist either | 38 | You should only build ohci1394 or firewire-ohci, but not both. |
| 61 | ohci1394 or firewire-ohci to let hotplug load only the desired driver. | 39 | If you nevertheless want to install both, you should configure them |
| 40 | only as modules and blacklist the driver(s) which you don't want to | ||
| 41 | have auto-loaded. Add either | ||
| 42 | |||
| 43 | blacklist firewire-ohci | ||
| 44 | or | ||
| 45 | blacklist ohci1394 | ||
| 46 | blacklist video1394 | ||
| 47 | blacklist dv1394 | ||
| 48 | |||
| 49 | to /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/* and update modprobe.conf | ||
| 50 | depending on your distribution. The latter two modules should be | ||
| 51 | blacklisted together with ohci1394 because they depend on ohci1394. | ||
| 52 | |||
| 53 | If you have an old modprobe which doesn't implement the blacklist | ||
| 54 | directive, use "install modulename /bin/true" for the modules to be | ||
| 55 | blacklisted. | ||
| 62 | 56 | ||
| 63 | config FIREWIRE_SBP2 | 57 | config FIREWIRE_SBP2 |
| 64 | tristate "Support for storage devices (SBP-2 protocol driver)" | 58 | tristate "Support for storage devices (SBP-2 protocol driver)" |
| @@ -75,9 +69,3 @@ config FIREWIRE_SBP2 | |||
| 75 | 69 | ||
| 76 | You should also enable support for disks, CD-ROMs, etc. in the SCSI | 70 | You should also enable support for disks, CD-ROMs, etc. in the SCSI |
| 77 | configuration section. | 71 | configuration section. |
| 78 | |||
| 79 | NOTE: | ||
| 80 | |||
| 81 | If you also build sbp2 of the classic stack, blacklist either sbp2 | ||
| 82 | or firewire-sbp2 to let hotplug load only the desired driver. | ||
| 83 | |||
