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SubjectRe: [PULL] Miscellaneous trivialities
On 08/15/2013 04:44:01 AM, Michael Witten wrote:
> I've been sitting on some trivial patches for a while, and I'd just
> like to get them out of the way.
>
> Here is the series:
>
> [1] Docs: Kconfig: For readability, offset modifiers with commas
> [2] Docs: Kconfig: Use consistent whitespace indentation
> [3] Docs: Kconfig: Clean up the radiotap documentation
> [4] Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers'
> [5] Docs: Replace `hotplug' with `udev'
> [6] DRM: comment: halve -> half
> [7] DRM: comment: gdm_proc_lists -> drm_proc_lists
> [8] DRM: cleanup: Remove unused `gamma_size'
>
> Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 | 5 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 3 -
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c | 4 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c | 2 +-
> drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/Kconfig | 102
> ++++++++++++++++----------------
> fs/btrfs/Kconfig | 3 +-
> init/Kconfig | 4 +-
> 7 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
>
> Those commits merge cleanly with:
>
> 28fbc8b6a29c849a3f03a6b05010d4b584055665
> Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
> (2013-08-13 16:58:17 -0700)
>
> and they can be pulled from here:
>
> https://github.com/mfwitten/linux.git trivial/misc/0
>
> While it is much easier to review the individual commits, a combined
> diff is appended to the end of this email in case that is convenient.
>
> Sincerely
> Michael Witten
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
> b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
> index b7658be..aeb6494 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
> @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ You can set the debug level via:
>
> Where $VALUE would be a number in the case of this sysfs entry. The
> input to sysfs files does not have to be a number. For example, the
> -firmware loader used by hotplug utilizes sysfs entries for
> transferring
> +firmware loader used by udev utilizes sysfs entries for transferring
> the firmware image from user space into the driver.

Hotplug is the name of the kernel subsystem, udev was one
implementation of a userspace agent for it. A different implementation
would be mdev (in busybox), some linux from scratch types are still
using variants of diethotplug, there's a fork of udev called eudev that
avoids systemd...

And these days, firmware loading is mostly done directly by the kernel.

> The Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux exposes sysfs
> entries
> @@ -425,8 +425,7 @@ are made to the driver. Currently, there are no
> major changes planned.
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> The driver requires a firmware image, download it and extract the
> -files under /lib/firmware (or wherever your hotplug's firmware.agent
> -will look for firmware files)
> +files under /lib/firmware (or wherever udev will look for firmware
> files)

Again, hotplug is correct.

Rob

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