From: matt mooney Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:17:31 +0000 (-0700) Subject: driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=156faf9080e0acf2b301c982e7a77cd6fbb2d0ad;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 5fe7fd23ed65..52c675883684 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