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author | George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> | 2013-06-17 01:45:50 -0400 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-06-18 13:39:04 -0400 |
commit | 035978beaf79e3bd0c4f6308e8c8ce5067e26b9d (patch) | |
tree | be11142aa386d19c7a75130dee00f34b6fa593ac /drivers/usb | |
parent | 7d132055814ef17a6c7b69f342244c410a5e000f (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/Kconfig | 14 |
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 @@ | |||
4 | menuconfig USB_PHY | 4 | menuconfig 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 | ||
13 | if USB_PHY | 19 | if USB_PHY |
14 | 20 | ||