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authorRobin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>2017-11-17 01:36:12 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-11-28 18:47:46 +0300
commit0946b2fb38fdb6585a5ac3ca84ac73924f645952 (patch)
treef07be33989db429feceaa1dbc6c327f3f1aa0cac /drivers/base
parent5a244727f428a06634f22bb890e78024ab0c89f3 (diff)
downloadlinux-0946b2fb38fdb6585a5ac3ca84ac73924f645952.tar.xz
firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message
The help for FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL still references the firmware_install command that was recently removed by commit 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware"). Clean up the message to direct the user to their distribution's linux-firmware package, and remove any reference to firmware being included in the kernel source tree. Fixes: 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware"). Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/Kconfig25
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 2f6614c9a229..bdc87907d6a1 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -91,22 +91,23 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
depends on FW_LOADER
default y
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", 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.
+ Various drivers in the kernel source tree may require firmware,
+ which is generally available in your distribution's linux-firmware
+ package.
+
+ The linux-firmware package should install firmware into
+ /lib/firmware/ on your system, so 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 that uses
- such firmware and do not wish to use an initrd.
+ specified by EXTRA_FIRMWARE 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 that uses such firmware and you do not wish to use an
+ initrd.
This single option controls the inclusion of firmware for
- every driver that uses request_firmware() and ships its
- firmware in the kernel source tree, which avoids a
+ every driver that uses request_firmware(), which avoids a
proliferation of 'Include firmware for xxx device' options.
Say 'N' and let firmware be loaded from userspace.