staging: vchiq: Add details to Kconfig help texts

Add some details to the Kconfig definitions of $CONFIG_VCHIQ_CDEV and
$CONFIG_BCM2835_VCHIQ to help make the motive behind the configs a bit
more clear.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin98@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ab88d3222088aca29a319147b50a9d1e9f0f8b81.1627925241.git.ojaswin98@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@ -15,18 +15,27 @@ config BCM2835_VCHIQ
tristate "BCM2835 VCHIQ" tristate "BCM2835 VCHIQ"
imply VCHIQ_CDEV imply VCHIQ_CDEV
help help
Kernel to VideoCore communication interface for the Broadcom BCM2835 and similar SoCs have a VPU called VideoCore. This config
BCM2835 family of products. enables the VCHIQ driver, which implements a messaging interface between
Defaults to Y when the Broadcom Videocore services the kernel and the firmware running on VideoCore. Other drivers use this
are included in the build, N otherwise. interface to communicate to the VPU. More specifically, the VCHIQ driver is
used by audio/video and camera drivers as well as for implementing MMAL
API, which is in turn used by several multimedia services on the BCM2835
family of SoCs.
Defaults to Y when the Broadcom Videocore services are included in
the build, N otherwise.
if BCM2835_VCHIQ if BCM2835_VCHIQ
config VCHIQ_CDEV config VCHIQ_CDEV
bool "VCHIQ Character Driver" bool "VCHIQ Character Driver"
help help
Enable the creation of VCHIQ character driver to help Enable the creation of VCHIQ character driver. The cdev exposes ioctls used
communicate with the Videocore platform. by userspace libraries and testing tools to interact with VideoCore, via
the VCHIQ core driver (Check BCM2835_VCHIQ for more info).
This can be set to 'N' if the VideoCore communication is not needed by
userspace but only by other kernel modules (like bcm2835-audio). If not
sure, set this to 'Y'.
endif endif