From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 3/9]
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:42:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BAEABF.6050005@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080219143307.GA27352@tull.net>
Nick Andrew wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:09AM +1100, Nick Andrew wrote:
>> Here is a series of 9 patches to init/Kconfig intended to improve the
>> usefulness and consistency of the help descriptions. The patches are
>> against linux-2.6.24.2.
>> [...]
>> Patch 3
>> USER_NS
>> PID_NS
What about UTS_NS, IPC_NS and NET_NS?
Their descriptions can be improved in the same way :)
> Changelog:
>
> Improve usefulness and consistency of kernel configuration help messages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
>
> --- a/init/Kconfig 2008-02-20 00:45:07.000000000 +1100
> +++ b/init/Kconfig 2008-02-20 00:52:07.000000000 +1100
> @@ -211,21 +211,25 @@ config USER_NS
> default n
> depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> help
> - Support user namespaces. This allows containers, i.e.
> - vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
> - user info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
> + Enable support for user namespaces.
> +
> + This allows containers (i.e. vservers) to use user namespaces
> + to provide different user info for different servers.
> +
> + If unsure, say N.
>
> config PID_NS
> bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> default n
> depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> help
> - Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
> - process with the same pid as long as they are in different
> - pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
> + Enable support for process id namespaces.
>
> - Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
> - say N here.
> + This allows having multiple processes with the same PID as
> + long as they are in different PID namespaces. This is used
> + by containers (i.e. vservers).
> +
> + If unsure, say N.
>
> config AUDIT
> bool "Auditing support"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-19 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 14:06 Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 0/9] Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 14:09 ` Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 1/9] Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 14:11 ` Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 2/9] Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 14:33 ` Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 3/9] Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 14:42 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2008-02-19 15:10 ` Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 15:16 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-19 15:50 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-02-19 16:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-19 22:41 ` Nick Andrew
2008-02-20 12:19 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 3/9] config: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - namespaces Nick Andrew
2008-02-20 12:23 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-20 13:01 ` Nick Andrew
2008-02-20 13:07 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-20 16:50 ` serge
2008-02-20 23:10 ` Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 14:38 ` Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 4/9] Nick Andrew
2008-02-20 3:42 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-20 22:17 ` Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 14:53 ` Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 5/9] Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 20:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-19 15:12 ` Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 6/9] Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 15:39 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-20 12:41 ` Nick Andrew
2008-02-20 16:43 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-20 2:04 ` Paul Menage
2008-02-20 2:54 ` Nick Andrew
2008-02-20 3:12 ` Paul Menage
2008-02-20 16:55 ` serge
2008-02-20 21:31 ` Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 15:15 ` Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 7/9] Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 15:21 ` Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 8/9] Nick Andrew
2008-02-19 15:27 ` Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 9/9] Nick Andrew
2008-02-20 22:33 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 1/9] init: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions part 1 Nick Andrew
[not found] ` <200802220014.m1M0Dh5r022354@rgminet03.oracle.com>
2008-02-22 0:19 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 5/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - IKCONFIG etc Randy Dunlap
2008-02-22 0:48 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 1/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions part 1 Nick Andrew
2008-02-22 0:49 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 2/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - TASKSTATS Nick Andrew
2008-02-22 0:51 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 3/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - NAMESPACES Nick Andrew
2008-02-27 23:00 ` Nick Andrew
2008-02-27 23:08 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-02-22 0:52 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 4/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - AUDIT Nick Andrew
2008-02-22 0:54 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 5/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - IKCONFIG etc Nick Andrew
2008-02-22 0:55 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 6/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - CGROUPS Nick Andrew
2008-02-22 0:56 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 7/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - EMBEDDED etc Nick Andrew
2008-02-22 0:58 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 8/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - SLAB Nick Andrew
2008-02-22 0:59 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 9/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - MODULES Nick Andrew
[not found] ` <200802220010.m1M0Arr7024044@vzorg.swsoft.net>
2008-02-22 8:14 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc2 3/9] Kconfig: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions - NAMESPACES Pavel Emelyanov
[not found] ` <200802220010.m1M0Auqn024414@e5.ny.us.ibm.com>
2008-02-22 22:14 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-02-23 1:12 ` Nick Andrew
2008-02-23 3:45 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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