Commit 0a8da30d authored by Stefan Richter's avatar Stefan Richter
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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: default avatarStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
parent a2cdebe3

drivers/firewire/Kconfig

+19 −31
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# -*- 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.