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authorThomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>2015-01-16 09:07:05 +0100
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2015-01-16 22:34:18 +0100
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linux: clarify help text for 'custom tarball'
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@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'linux')
-rw-r--r--linux/Config.in9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/linux/Config.in b/linux/Config.in
index a6708028d8..1df0a49c10 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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