From: Andy Walls Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 20:03:41 +0000 (-0300) Subject: [media] ivtv-alsa: Remove EXPERIMENTAL from Kconfig and revise Kconfig help text X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24e527a0e7b23ca0158a4251157d234e156f88ca;p=linux-beck.git [media] ivtv-alsa: Remove EXPERIMENTAL from Kconfig and revise Kconfig help text Remove the (somewhat meaningless?) dependency on EXPERIMENTAL for the ivtv-alsa driver. Revise the Kconfig help text to be a little clearer for the lay person, while we are here. Signed-off-by: Andy Walls Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig b/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig index 3906b883e2bc..dd6ee57e3a4c 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig @@ -29,12 +29,17 @@ config VIDEO_IVTV module will be called ivtv. config VIDEO_IVTV_ALSA - tristate "Conexant cx23415/cx23416 PCM audio capture support" - depends on VIDEO_IVTV && SND && EXPERIMENTAL + tristate "Conexant cx23415/cx23416 ALSA interface for PCM audio capture" + depends on VIDEO_IVTV && SND select SND_PCM ---help--- - This is an ALSA interface driver for direct PCM audio capture from - Conexant cx23415/cx23416 based PCI TV cards using the ivtv driver. + This driver provides an ALSA interface as another method for user + applications to obtain PCM audio data from Conexant cx23415/cx23416 + based PCI TV cards supported by the ivtv driver. + + The ALSA interface has much wider use in user applications performing + PCM audio capture, than the V4L2 "/dev/video24" PCM audio interface + provided by the main ivtv driver. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ivtv-alsa.