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| author | Benjamin Romer | 2015-11-24 15:53:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 2015-11-25 17:42:14 +0100 |
| commit | f84a187019ccfce97fbf38fa9f3a8261fef91d8e (patch) | |
| tree | b7bef3152bd3ea9af286d863101a42a861a0b93a /drivers/staging/unisys | |
| parent | staging: unisys: visornic: Removed the blank line (diff) | |
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staging: unisys: better config switch comments
We should provide more information in the Kconfig help for visorbus and
visorinput.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/unisys')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/Kconfig | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig | 7 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/Kconfig index 9b299ac86015..511388075ffa 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/Kconfig @@ -6,4 +6,9 @@ config UNISYS_VISORBUS tristate "Unisys visorbus driver" depends on UNISYSSPAR ---help--- - If you say Y here, you will enable the Unisys visorbus driver. + The visorbus driver is a virtualized bus for the Unisys s-Par firmware. + Virtualized devices allow Linux guests on a system to share disks and + network cards that do not have SR-IOV support, and to be accessed using + the partition desktop application. The visorbus driver is required to + discover devices on an s-Par guest, and must be present for any other + s-Par guest driver to function correctly. diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig index d83deb4137e8..3476d419d32c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig @@ -6,5 +6,10 @@ config UNISYS_VISORINPUT tristate "Unisys visorinput driver" depends on UNISYSSPAR && UNISYS_VISORBUS && FB ---help--- - If you say Y here, you will enable the Unisys visorinput driver. + The Unisys s-Par visorinput driver provides a virtualized system + console (keyboard and mouse) that is accessible through the + s-Par firmware's user interface. s-Par provides video using the EFI + GOP protocol, so If this driver is not present, the Linux guest should + still boot with visible output in the partition desktop, but keyboard + and mouse interaction will not be available. |