From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752267Ab1G0EFl (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:05:41 -0400 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:36963 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790Ab1G0EFi (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:05:38 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: HSwQm3Yjvf9zbZLIf7LECC3YGxZVloLxS6+AcRYG+wdJ 1311739537 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: matt mooney , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: [PATCH 05/11] driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:05:15 -0700 Message-Id: <1311739521-11014-5-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.6 In-Reply-To: <1311739521-11014-1-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> References: <20110726045707.GA2321@kroah.com> <1311739521-11014-1-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: matt mooney The help message for the configuration variable was inconsistent with the way "make firmware_install" really works. Signed-off-by: matt mooney Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/Kconfig | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 5fe7fd2..52c6758 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -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 -- 1.7.6