[Linux-ia64] Request for Configure.help texts for IA64 options.

[Linux-ia64] Request for Configure.help texts for IA64 options.

[Steven Cole]

Greetings all,

Eric S. Raymond and I have recently become the maintainers of
the Configure.help file.  Here is a list of five IA64 config options which
are setable, but do not have Configure.help entries.

CONFIG_IA64_DEBUG_CMPXCHG
CONFIG_IA64_DEBUG_IRQ
CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK
CONFIG_IA64_EFIVARS
CONFIG_IA64_PRINT_HAZARDS

Would someone please generate the help texts for these items, and send
the texts to Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> and cc to
Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>.

We are trying to produce a superset Configure.help file for Linus' and Alan's
tree's, so sending these texts directly to Alan or Linus right now might just 
confuse things.

Thanks in advance,

Steven

RE: [Linux-ia64] Request for Configure.help texts for IA64 option

[Matt_Domsch]

> CONFIG_IA64_EFIVARS

CONFIG_IA64_EFIVARS has been replaced with CONFIG_EFI_VARS in what will be
DavidM's next patch against 2.4.4, and his tree includes help text for this.
I'm including it here just for reference.

/proc/efi/vars support
CONFIG_EFI_VARS
  If you say Y here, you are able to get EFI (Extensible Firmware
  Interface) variable information in /proc/efi/vars.  You may read,
  write, create, and destroy EFI variables through this interface.

  To use this option, you have to check that the "/proc file system
  support" (CONFIG_PROC_FS) is enabled, too.


Thanks,
Matt

--
Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer
Dell Linux Systems Group
Linux OS Development
www.dell.com/linux

Re: [Linux-ia64] Request for Configure.help texts for IA64 option s.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Matt_Domsch@Dell.com <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>:
> > CONFIG_IA64_EFIVARS
> 
> CONFIG_IA64_EFIVARS has been replaced with CONFIG_EFI_VARS in what will be
> DavidM's next patch against 2.4.4, and his tree includes help text for this.

Heh.  I remember looking at this and thinking the underscore was missing.

> I'm including it here just for reference.
> 
> /proc/efi/vars support
> CONFIG_EFI_VARS
>   If you say Y here, you are able to get EFI (Extensible Firmware
>   Interface) variable information in /proc/efi/vars.  You may read,
>   write, create, and destroy EFI variables through this interface.
> 
>   To use this option, you have to check that the "/proc file system
>   support" (CONFIG_PROC_FS) is enabled, too.

I've added this to my superset-merged Configure.help.
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