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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>,
	Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>,
	Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@nospam.ericsson.com>,
	Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>,
	Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@nospam.windriver.com>,
	Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>,
	tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] TIPC: add Kconfig help text
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:58:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601172058.31503.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> (raw)


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@gmail.com>
---

 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"




             reply	other threads:[~2006-01-17 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-17 19:58 Jesper Juhl [this message]
2006-01-17 20:15 ` [PATCH] TIPC: add Kconfig help text Per Liden
2006-01-17 20:24   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-17 20:38     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-17 15:40       ` Jon Maloy
2006-01-17 20:51         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-17 20:38       ` Per Liden

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