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author | matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com> | 2011-06-12 14:17:31 -0400 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-07-01 18:12:03 -0400 |
commit | 156faf9080e0acf2b301c982e7a77cd6fbb2d0ad (patch) | |
tree | 730a11ec8256c03f80f5e5d5020494ab5f63031f /drivers/base | |
parent | 113647a281037d8b6f32e07f42a1328c7cd3da3b (diff) |
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')
-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 5fe7fd23ed65..52c675883684 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig | |||
@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL | |||
84 | help | 84 | help |
85 | The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs' | 85 | The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs' |
86 | that are used by various drivers. The recommended way to | 86 | that are used by various drivers. The recommended way to |
87 | use these is to run "make firmware_install" and to copy the | 87 | use these is to run "make firmware_install", which, after |
88 | resulting binary files created in usr/lib/firmware/ of the | 88 | converting ihex files to binary, copies all of the needed |
89 | kernel tree to /lib/firmware/ on your system so that they can | 89 | binary files in firmware/ to /lib/firmware/ on your system so |
90 | be loaded by userspace helpers on request. | 90 | that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request. |
91 | 91 | ||
92 | Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob | 92 | Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob |
93 | into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find | 93 | into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find |