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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
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. |