Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964780AbWAQT62 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:58:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964784AbWAQT62 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:58:28 -0500 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.203]:38292 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964780AbWAQT61 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:58:27 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=gnWO1zJvhTzXXfH9mqsAeKPfttpibvmLirqfJ+UsEzouc73d0kN1wUNQIJqUusj+Cyv1SQo8isYRVJVSZ1OPY+Zgt52UIS1vh77giN6WhRW1QGryh/gZz4zQzCzPyOiAl7xGrm3UcWmHkYfvbwHo69BmGDx2NHG4vIqvCvRllDk= From: Jesper Juhl To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: [PATCH] TIPC: add Kconfig help text Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:58:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: Per Liden , Per Liden , Jon Maloy , Jon Maloy , Allan Stephens , Allan Stephens , tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, Jesper Juhl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601172058.31503.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1772 Lines: 51 A new option such as TIPC should have a clear help text (as should any option for that matter) so users have a chance of determining if they want the option enabled or not without having to do extensive online searches. Since this is likely to puzzle a lot of people doing "make oldconfig" with 2.6.16 using their old 2.6.15 .config I think the patch below (or a similar one) should go in before 2.6.16 is released. Please consider merging. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl --- net/tipc/Kconfig | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.16-rc1-orig/net/tipc/Kconfig 2006-01-17 19:14:24.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1/net/tipc/Kconfig 2006-01-17 19:30:13.000000000 +0100 @@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ config TIPC tristate "The TIPC Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)" ---help--- - TBD. + The Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC) protocol is a + protocol for intra cluster communication. + Unless you are building a cluster using TIPC you probably have no + use for this. This protocol support is also available as a module ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you @@ -23,8 +26,8 @@ default n help Saying Y here will open some advanced configuration - for TIPC. Most users do not need to bother, so if - unsure, just say N. + for TIPC. Most users do not need to bother, so if unsure, + just say N. config TIPC_ZONES int "Maximum number of zones in network" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/