Re: [PATCH] TIPC: add Kconfig help text

[Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>]

I've already committed a patch similar to this in our GIT repo 
(http://tipc.cslab.ericsson.net), just haven't asked for it to be pulled 
yet since we have another fix for some namespace pullution in the 
pipeline. Thanks though!

/Per

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> 
> 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"
> 
> 
> 
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