Re: [PATCH v3] carl9170: Clarify kconfig text

From: Christian Lamparter
Date: Mon Apr 18 2016 - 12:24:13 EST


On Monday, April 18, 2016 07:07:39 PM Lauri Kasanen wrote:
> The previous text was confusing, leading readers to think this
> driver was a duplicate, and so didn't need to be enabled.
>
> After the removal of the older staging driver, this is the only
> driver in mainline for these devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lauri Kasanen <cand@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> v3: Remove all firmware mentions.
>
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig | 8 +-------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig
> index 1a796e5..ca1ae09 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig
> @@ -5,13 +5,7 @@ config CARL9170
> select FW_LOADER
> select CRC32
> help
> - This is another driver for the Atheros "otus" 802.11n USB devices.
> -
> - This driver provides more features than the original,
> - but it needs a special firmware (carl9170-1.fw) to do that.
> -
> - The firmware can be downloaded from our wiki here:
> - <http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170>
Please do keep the wiki link.