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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.h b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.h
index c8a8ca126127..4233605df30a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.h
@@ -41,7 +41,17 @@
/* number of config options in the config structure */
#define COMEDI_NDEVCONFOPTS 32
-/*length of nth chunk of firmware data*/
+
+/*
+ * NOTE: 'comedi_config --init-data' is deprecated
+ *
+ * The following indexes in the config options were used by
+ * comedi_config to pass firmware blobs from user space to the
+ * comedi drivers. The request_firmware() hotplug interface is
+ * now used by all comedi drivers instead.
+ */
+
+/* length of nth chunk of firmware data -*/
#define COMEDI_DEVCONF_AUX_DATA3_LENGTH 25
#define COMEDI_DEVCONF_AUX_DATA2_LENGTH 26
#define COMEDI_DEVCONF_AUX_DATA1_LENGTH 27