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authorGeorge Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>2013-06-17 01:45:50 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-06-18 13:39:04 -0400
commit035978beaf79e3bd0c4f6308e8c8ce5067e26b9d (patch)
treebe11142aa386d19c7a75130dee00f34b6fa593ac /drivers/usb
parent7d132055814ef17a6c7b69f342244c410a5e000f (diff)
usb: phy: Improve Kconfig help for CONFIG_USB_PHY
The previous text confused users by not describing the very common (e.g. x86 PC) sitations where no PHY driver is necessary. Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/phy/Kconfig14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/phy/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/phy/Kconfig
index 7ef3eb8617a6..2311b1e4e43c 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/phy/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/usb/phy/Kconfig
@@ -4,11 +4,17 @@
4menuconfig USB_PHY 4menuconfig USB_PHY
5 bool "USB Physical Layer drivers" 5 bool "USB Physical Layer drivers"
6 help 6 help
7 USB controllers (those which are host, device or DRD) need a 7 Most USB controllers have the physical layer signalling part
8 device to handle the physical layer signalling, commonly called 8 (commonly called a PHY) built in. However, dual-role devices
9 a PHY. 9 (a.k.a. USB on-the-go) which support being USB master or slave
10 with the same connector often use an external PHY.
10 11
11 The following drivers add support for such PHY devices. 12 The drivers in this submenu add support for such PHY devices.
13 They are not needed for standard master-only (or the vast
14 majority of slave-only) USB interfaces.
15
16 If you're not sure if this applies to you, it probably doesn't;
17 say N here.
12 18
13if USB_PHY 19if USB_PHY
14 20