This adds help texts to arch/alpha/Config.help for
CONFIG_ALPHA_EV67, CONFIG_DEBUG_RWLOCK and CONFIG_DEBUG_SEMAPHORE.
This has been in the -dj tree since about 2.5.7.
The texts were obtained from ESR's v2.97 Configure.help.
Steven
--- linux-2.5.31/arch/alpha/Config.help.orig Sat Aug 10 19:41:20 2002
+++ linux-2.5.31/arch/alpha/Config.help Mon Aug 12 09:52:42 2002
@@ -251,6 +251,10 @@
CONFIG_ALPHA_GAMMA
Say Y if you have an AS 2000 5/xxx or an AS 2100 5/xxx.
+CONFIG_ALPHA_EV67
+ Is this a machine based on the EV67 core? If in doubt, select N here
+ and the machine will be treated as an EV6.
+
CONFIG_ALPHA_SRM
There are two different types of booting firmware on Alphas: SRM,
which is command line driven, and ARC, which uses menus and arrow
@@ -598,4 +602,15 @@
and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
deadlocks are also debuggable.
+
+CONFIG_DEBUG_RWLOCK
+ If you say Y here then read-write lock processing will count how many
+ times it has tried to get the lock and issue an error message after
+ too many attempts. If you suspect a rwlock problem or a kernel
+ hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
+
+CONFIG_DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
+ If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
+ verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
+ kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
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