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| author |   Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> | 2017-11-16 14:36:12 -0800 |
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| committer |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-11-28 16:47:46 +0100 |
| commit | 0946b2fb38fdb6585a5ac3ca84ac73924f645952 (patch) | |
| tree | f07be33989db429feceaa1dbc6c327f3f1aa0cac /drivers/base | |
| parent | isa: Prevent NULL dereference in isa_bus driver callbacks (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-0946b2fb38fdb6585a5ac3ca84ac73924f645952.tar.xz linux-dev-0946b2fb38fdb6585a5ac3ca84ac73924f645952.zip | |
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/Kconfig | 25 |
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. |