Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Ojaswin Mujoo <> | Subject | [PATCH 2/2] staging: vchiq: Add details to $CONFIG_VCHIQ_CDEV help text | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:07:17 +0530 |
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Add some details to the Kconfig definition of $CONFIG_VCHIQ_CDEV to help make the motive behind it a bit more clear.
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin98@gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig index 2b70c37cdd09..cb02d8a4cb74 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig @@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ config VCHIQ_CDEV bool "VCHIQ Character Driver" default y help - Enable the creation of VCHIQ character driver to help - communicate with the Videocore platform. + Enable the creation of VCHIQ character driver to help communicate + with the VideoCore platform. The cdev exposes ioctls used by + userspace libraries and testing tools to interact with VideoCore. + This can be set to 'N' if the VideoCore communication is not needed + by userspace but only by other kernel modules (like bcm2835-audio). + If not sure, set this to 'Y'. endif -- 2.25.1
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