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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
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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.