dect
/
linux-2.6
Archived
13
0
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

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>
This commit is contained in:
matt mooney 2011-06-12 11:17:31 -07:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 113647a281
commit 156faf9080
1 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

8
drivers/base/Kconfig
View File

@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
help
The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs'
that are used by various drivers. The recommended way to
use these is to run "make firmware_install" and to copy the
resulting binary files created in usr/lib/firmware/ of the
kernel tree to /lib/firmware/ on your system so that they can
be loaded by userspace helpers on request.
use these is to run "make firmware_install", which, after
converting ihex files to binary, copies all of the needed
binary files in firmware/ to /lib/firmware/ on your system so
that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request.
Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob
into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find