From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 04/11] driver-core: Kconfig grammar corrections in firmware configuration
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:05:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311739521-11014-4-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311739521-11014-1-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>
From: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Fix some grammatical errors and reword a few sentences.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
drivers/base/Kconfig | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index d57e8d0..5fe7fd2 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -65,17 +65,17 @@ config PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD
default y
help
Say yes to avoid building firmware. Firmware is usually shipped
- with the driver, and only when updating the firmware a rebuild
- should be made.
- If unsure say Y here.
+ with the driver and only when updating the firmware should a
+ rebuild be made.
+ If unsure, say Y here.
config FW_LOADER
tristate "Userspace firmware loading support" if EXPERT
default y
---help---
- This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree modules
- require userspace firmware loading support, but a module built outside
- the kernel tree does.
+ This option is provided for the case where none of the in-tree modules
+ require userspace firmware loading support, but a module built
+ out-of-tree does.
config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
bool "Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary"
@@ -83,22 +83,22 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
default y
help
The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs'
- which are used by various drivers. The recommended way to
+ 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 directory
- of the kernel tree to the /lib/firmware on your system so
- that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request.
+ 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.
Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob
into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find
them without having to call out to userspace. This may be
- useful if your root file system requires a device which uses
- such firmware, and do not wish to use an initrd.
+ useful if your root file system requires a device that uses
+ such firmware and do not wish to use an initrd.
This single option controls the inclusion of firmware for
- every driver which uses request_firmware() and ships its
- firmware in the kernel source tree, to avoid a proliferation
- of 'Include firmware for xxx device' options.
+ every driver that uses request_firmware() and ships its
+ firmware in the kernel source tree, which avoids a
+ proliferation of 'Include firmware for xxx device' options.
Say 'N' and let firmware be loaded from userspace.
@@ -106,27 +106,27 @@ config EXTRA_FIRMWARE
string "External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary"
depends on FW_LOADER
help
- This option allows firmware to be built into the kernel, for the
- cases where the user either cannot or doesn't want to provide it from
+ This option allows firmware to be built into the kernel for the case
+ where the user either cannot or doesn't want to provide it from
userspace at runtime (for example, when the firmware in question is
required for accessing the boot device, and the user doesn't want to
use an initrd).
- This option is a string, and takes the (space-separated) names of the
- firmware files -- the same names which appear in MODULE_FIRMWARE()
+ This option is a string and takes the (space-separated) names of the
+ firmware files -- the same names that appear in MODULE_FIRMWARE()
and request_firmware() in the source. These files should exist under
the directory specified by the EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR option, which is
- by default the firmware/ subdirectory of the kernel source tree.
+ by default the firmware subdirectory of the kernel source tree.
- So, for example, you might set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="usb8388.bin",
- copy the usb8388.bin file into the firmware/ directory, and build the
- kernel. Then any request_firmware("usb8388.bin") will be
- satisfied internally without needing to call out to userspace.
+ For example, you might set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="usb8388.bin", copy
+ the usb8388.bin file into the firmware directory, and build the kernel.
+ Then any request_firmware("usb8388.bin") will be satisfied internally
+ without needing to call out to userspace.
WARNING: If you include additional firmware files into your binary
- kernel image which are not available under the terms of the GPL,
+ kernel image that are not available under the terms of the GPL,
then it may be a violation of the GPL to distribute the resulting
- image -- since it combines both GPL and non-GPL work. You should
+ image since it combines both GPL and non-GPL work. You should
consult a lawyer of your own before distributing such an image.
config EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR
@@ -136,10 +136,9 @@ config EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR
help
This option controls the directory in which the kernel build system
looks for the firmware files listed in the EXTRA_FIRMWARE option.
- The default is the firmware/ directory in the kernel source tree,
- but by changing this option you can point it elsewhere, such as
- the /lib/firmware/ directory or another separate directory
- containing firmware files.
+ The default is firmware/ in the kernel source tree, but by changing
+ this option you can point it elsewhere, such as /lib/firmware/ or
+ some other directory containing the firmware files.
config DEBUG_DRIVER
bool "Driver Core verbose debug messages"
--
1.7.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 4:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-26 4:57 [GIT PATCH] driver core merge for 3.1 Greg KH
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 01/11] pti: pti_tty_install documentation mispelling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 02/11] DOCUMENTATION: Update overview.txt in Doc/driver-model Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 03/11] DOCUMENTATION: Replace create_device() with device_create() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 05/11] driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 06/11] driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 07/11] Documentation/zh_CN: Fix messy code file email-clients.txt Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 08/11] firmware: gsmi: remove sysfs entries when unload the module Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 09/11] uio: uio_pdrv_genirq: Add OF support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 8:17 ` Hans J. Koch
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 10/11] debugfs: add documentation for debugfs_create_x64 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 11/11] updated Documentation/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches Greg Kroah-Hartman
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