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| author | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2008-03-09 00:27:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2008-03-14 00:56:59 +0100 |
| commit | 0a8da30dc7bd6828f42d9f0585367731f634a0c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c122e305f2a5741709677ca497ab50d96c16cc8 /drivers | |
| parent | firewire: warn on fatal condition in topology code (diff) | |
| download | linux-0a8da30dc7bd6828f42d9f0585367731f634a0c8.tar.xz linux-0a8da30dc7bd6828f42d9f0585367731f634a0c8.zip | |
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')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firewire/Kconfig | 50 |
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. - |