From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
lailavrazda1979@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] kcore: add Kconfig help text
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:51:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <527B2A76.2000501@infradead.org> (raw)
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Under Pseudo filesystems, /proc/kcore support has no help,
so add some.
Fixes a portion of kernel bugzilla #52671:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52671
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reported-by: lailavrazda1979@gmail.com
---
Would anyone like to expand on this help text?
Thanks.
fs/proc/Kconfig | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- lnx-312.orig/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ lnx-312/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ config PROC_FS
config PROC_KCORE
bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
depends on PROC_FS && MMU
+ help
+ Exports kernel core in ELF format.
config PROC_VMCORE
bool "/proc/vmcore support"
next reply other threads:[~2013-11-07 5:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-07 5:51 Randy Dunlap [this message]
2013-11-07 15:57 ` [PATCH] kcore: add Kconfig help text David Howells
2013-11-07 16:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Randy Dunlap
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