[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: clarify help text for 'custom tarball'

[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: clarify help text for 'custom tarball'

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

From: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>

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>
---
 linux/Config.in | 9 +++++++--
 1 file 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"
-- 
1.8.5.1

[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: clarify help text for 'custom tarball'

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:07:05 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> From: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
> 
> 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>

Applied, thanks.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com