[PATCH net-next 23/32] sfc: Update the description of SFC_MTD
From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2012-01-27 20:50:18
Subsystem:
networking drivers, sfc network driver, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Edward Cree, Linus Torvalds
SFC4000 boards also have an EEPROM exposed as MTD. The boot configuration is accessed through MTD. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/Kconfig | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/Kconfig
index ae40b66..8d42354 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/Kconfig@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ config SFC_MTD depends on SFC && MTD && !(SFC=y && MTD=m) default y ---help--- - This exposes the on-board flash memory as MTD devices (e.g. - /dev/mtd1). This makes it possible to upload new firmware - to the NIC. + This exposes the on-board flash and/or EEPROM as MTD devices + (e.g. /dev/mtd1). This is required to update the firmware or + the boot configuration under Linux. config SFC_MCDI_MON bool "Solarflare SFC9000-family hwmon support" depends on SFC && HWMON && !(SFC=y && HWMON=m)
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1.7.7.5
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Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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