[PATCH] staging: vchiq: Reformat Kconfig help texts
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Sun Apr 14 09:07:53 PDT 2024
Hi Stefan,
Thank you for the patch.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 04:45:15PM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> The lines in the VCHIQ Kconfig help texts are too long, which makes
> it hard to read the menuconfig. So shorten them to restore the
> readability.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst at gmx.net>
> ---
> drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig | 33 +++++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig
> index 31e58c9d1a11..982445dd317b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig
> @@ -16,27 +16,30 @@ config BCM2835_VCHIQ
> depends on HAS_DMA
> imply VCHIQ_CDEV
> help
> - Broadcom BCM2835 and similar SoCs have a VPU called VideoCore. This config
> - enables the VCHIQ driver, which implements a messaging interface between
> - the kernel and the firmware running on VideoCore. Other drivers use this
> - interface to communicate to the VPU. More specifically, the VCHIQ driver is
> - used by audio/video and camera drivers as well as for implementing MMAL
> - API, which is in turn used by several multimedia services on the BCM2835
> - family of SoCs.
> - Defaults to Y when the Broadcom Videocore services are included in
> - the build, N otherwise.
> + Broadcom BCM2835 and similar SoCs have a VPU called VideoCore.
> + This config enables the VCHIQ driver, which implements a
> + messaging interface between the kernel and the firmware running
> + on VideoCore. Other drivers use this interface to communicate to
> + the VPU. More specifically, the VCHIQ driver is used by
> + audio/video and camera drivers as well as for implementing MMAL
> + API, which is in turn used by several multimedia services on the
> + BCM2835 family of SoCs.
If you want two paragraphs, you should add a blank line here. Otherwise,
you should remove the line break. Same below.
> + Defaults to Y when the Broadcom Videocore services are included
> + in the build, N otherwise.
>
> if BCM2835_VCHIQ
>
> config VCHIQ_CDEV
> bool "VCHIQ Character Driver"
> help
> - Enable the creation of VCHIQ character driver. The cdev exposes ioctls used
> - by userspace libraries and testing tools to interact with VideoCore, via
> - the VCHIQ core driver (Check BCM2835_VCHIQ for more info).
> - 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'.
> + Enable the creation of VCHIQ character driver. The cdev exposes
> + ioctls used by userspace libraries and testing tools to interact
> + with VideoCore, via the VCHIQ core driver (Check BCM2835_VCHIQ
> + for more info).
> + 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'.
This should be paired with a "default y", although I think it would be
better to disable it by default. That's unrelated to this patch though,
so
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
>
> endif
>
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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