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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin98@gmail.com>
Cc: nsaenz@kernel.org, stefan.wahren@i2se.com,
	dan.carpenter@oracle.com, phil@raspberrypi.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: vchiq: Add details to $CONFIG_VCHIQ_CDEV help text
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 20:46:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YQGmG6nwk+pOyAdu@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c9c128b41e31d6bebe646e052aa05c44b19eb83.1627495116.git.ojaswin98@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:07:17AM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> 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'.

I still do not understand if I need this driver or not, and I have this
hardware!  What functionality does this driver accomplish?  What is
VideoCore?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-28 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-28 18:37 [PATCH 0/2] staging: vchiq: Minor fixups to CONFIG_VCHIQ_CDEV Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-28 18:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: vchiq: Set $CONFIG_VCHIQ_CDEV to be enabled by default Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-28 18:45   ` Greg KH
2021-07-28 20:06     ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-28 20:21       ` Stefan Wahren
2021-07-29 14:20         ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-28 18:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: vchiq: Add details to $CONFIG_VCHIQ_CDEV help text Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-28 18:46   ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-07-28 20:00     ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2021-07-28 20:39       ` Stefan Wahren
2021-07-29 13:47         ` Ojaswin Mujoo

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