Re: [PATCH] TIPC: add Kconfig help text

From: Per Liden
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 15:19:02 EST


I've already committed a patch similar to this in our GIT repo
(http://tipc.cslab.ericsson.net), just haven't asked for it to be pulled
yet since we have another fix for some namespace pullution in the
pipeline. Thanks though!

/Per

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:

>
> 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 <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> 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"
>
>
>
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