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driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message

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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>
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matt mooney
2011-06-12 11:17:31 -07:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
help help
The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs' The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs'
that 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 use these is to run "make firmware_install", which, after
resulting binary files created in usr/lib/firmware/ of the converting ihex files to binary, copies all of the needed
kernel tree to /lib/firmware/ on your system so that they can binary files in firmware/ to /lib/firmware/ on your system so
be loaded by userspace helpers on request. that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request.
Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob
into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find