Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754069Ab3HPPsY (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:48:24 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f44.google.com ([209.85.219.44]:60979 "EHLO mail-oa0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753802Ab3HPPsR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:48:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:48:16 -0500 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [PULL] Miscellaneous trivialities To: Michael Witten Cc: Jiri Kosina , Randy Dunlap , David Airlie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: (from mfwitten@gmail.com on Thu Aug 15 04:44:01 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-Id: <1376668096.2737.43@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3414 Lines: 85 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-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/