[Buildroot] [git commit] linux: clarify help text for 'custom tarball'
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Jan 16 21:34:18 UTC 2015
commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=74243211cb8204ee45b01ecdd5ba72fd6f974242
branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master
The help text for Linux option 'Custom tarball' only refers to ftp or
http tarballs, while in reality file or scp protocols are also
supported.
Triggered by a recent support question, update the help text to clarify
this.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
linux/Config.in | 9 +++++++--
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/linux/Config.in b/linux/Config.in
index a670802..1df0a49 100644
--- a/linux/Config.in
+++ b/linux/Config.in
@@ -48,8 +48,13 @@ config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION
config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL
bool "Custom tarball"
help
- This option allows to specify the http or ftp location of a
- specific kernel source tarball
+ This option allows to specify a URL pointing to a kernel source
+ tarball. This URL can use any protocol recognized by Buildroot,
+ like http://, ftp://, file:// or scp://.
+
+ When pointing to a local tarball using file://, you may want to
+ use a make variable like $(TOPDIR) to reference the root of the
+ Buildroot tree.
config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT
bool "Custom Git repository"
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