Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 3/9]

From: Pavel Emelyanov
Date: Tue Feb 19 2008 - 09:43:17 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> --- 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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