driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message
authormatt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:17:31 +0000 (11:17 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 1 Jul 2011 22:12:03 +0000 (15:12 -0700)
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>
drivers/base/Kconfig

index 5fe7fd23ed658362a98a6dd866ab6dfc790852ab..52c6758836846519a350056f2383bbf80f141b50 100644 (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
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