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authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2008-03-09 00:27:20 +0100
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2008-03-14 00:56:59 +0100
commit0a8da30dc7bd6828f42d9f0585367731f634a0c8 (patch)
tree0c122e305f2a5741709677ca497ab50d96c16cc8 /drivers/firewire
parentfirewire: warn on fatal condition in topology code (diff)
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firewire: update Kconfig help text
Remove some less necessary information, point out that video1394 and dv1394 should be blacklisted along with ohci1394. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firewire')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firewire/Kconfig50
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/Kconfig b/drivers/firewire/Kconfig
index fe9e768cfbc4..25bdc2dd9ce1 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firewire/Kconfig
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- shell-script -*-
-
comment "An alternative FireWire stack is available with EXPERIMENTAL=y"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL=n
@@ -21,27 +19,7 @@ config FIREWIRE
NOTE:
You should only build ONE of the stacks, unless you REALLY know what
- you are doing. If you install both, you should configure them only as
- modules rather than link them statically, and you should blacklist one
- of the concurrent low-level drivers in /etc/modprobe.conf. Add either
-
- blacklist firewire-ohci
- or
- blacklist ohci1394
-
- there depending on which driver you DON'T want to have auto-loaded.
- You can optionally do the same with the other IEEE 1394/ FireWire
- drivers.
-
- If you have an old modprobe which doesn't implement the blacklist
- directive, use either
-
- install firewire-ohci /bin/true
- or
- install ohci1394 /bin/true
-
- and so on, depending on which modules you DON't want to have
- auto-loaded.
+ you are doing.
config FIREWIRE_OHCI
tristate "Support for OHCI FireWire host controllers"
@@ -57,8 +35,24 @@ config FIREWIRE_OHCI
NOTE:
- If you also build ohci1394 of the classic stack, blacklist either
- ohci1394 or firewire-ohci to let hotplug load only the desired driver.
+ You should only build ohci1394 or firewire-ohci, but not both.
+ If you nevertheless want to install both, you should configure them
+ only as modules and blacklist the driver(s) which you don't want to
+ have auto-loaded. Add either
+
+ blacklist firewire-ohci
+ or
+ blacklist ohci1394
+ blacklist video1394
+ blacklist dv1394
+
+ to /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/* and update modprobe.conf
+ depending on your distribution. The latter two modules should be
+ blacklisted together with ohci1394 because they depend on ohci1394.
+
+ If you have an old modprobe which doesn't implement the blacklist
+ directive, use "install modulename /bin/true" for the modules to be
+ blacklisted.
config FIREWIRE_SBP2
tristate "Support for storage devices (SBP-2 protocol driver)"
@@ -75,9 +69,3 @@ config FIREWIRE_SBP2
You should also enable support for disks, CD-ROMs, etc. in the SCSI
configuration section.
-
- NOTE:
-
- If you also build sbp2 of the classic stack, blacklist either sbp2
- or firewire-sbp2 to let hotplug load only the desired driver.
-