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authorBenjamin Gilbert <benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com>2018-01-23 18:06:32 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-01-25 12:46:30 +0100
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parentfirmware: Drop FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL Kconfig option (diff)
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firmware: Fix up docs referring to FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
We've removed the option, so stop talking about it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gilbert <benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst7
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst
index 7300e66857f8..396cdf591ac5 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst
@@ -11,13 +11,8 @@ options:
* CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE
* CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR
-This should not be confused with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, this is for drivers
-which enables firmware to be built as part of the kernel build process. This
-option, CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, will build all firmware for all drivers
-enabled which ship its firmware inside the Linux kernel source tree.
-
There are a few reasons why you might want to consider building your firmware
-into the kernel with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE though:
+into the kernel with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE:
* Speed
* Firmware is needed for accessing the boot device, and the user doesn't