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diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
index ed881d5b3ee0..c0b0419e98b6 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
#
menuconfig FB
- tristate "Support for frame buffer devices"
+ tristate "Support for frame buffer device drivers"
+ select FB_CORE
select FB_NOTIFY
- select VIDEO_CMDLINE
help
The frame buffer device provides an abstraction for the graphics
hardware. It represents the frame buffer of some video hardware and
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ menuconfig FB
<http://www.munted.org.uk/programming/Framebuffer-HOWTO-1.3.html> for more
information.
+ This enables support for native frame buffer device (fbdev) drivers.
+
+ The DRM subsystem provides support for emulated frame buffer devices
+ on top of KMS drivers, but this option allows legacy fbdev drivers to
+ be enabled as well.
+
Say Y here and to the driver for your graphics board below if you
are compiling a kernel for a non-x86 architecture.