Allow people to use the full blown iproute2 programs with busybox ifupdown.

diff --git a/networking/Config.in b/networking/Config.in
index 26b42708416632c4c9a53cbe8ff885dd6f071595..406b991634ccbebf1da81f0e6bd6fd5097f9d48d 100644 (file)
--- a/networking/Config.in
+++ b/networking/Config.in
@@ -176,14 +176,31 @@ config CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
        bool "ifupdown"
        default n
        help
-         Activate or deactivate the specified interface.
-
+         Activate or deactivate the specified interfaces.  This applet makes
+         use of either "ifconfig" and "route" or the "ip" command to actually
+         configure network interfaces.  Therefore, you will probably also want
+         to enable either CONFIG_IFCONFIG and CONFIG_ROUTE, or enable
+         CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP and the various CONFIG_IP options.  Of
+         course you could use non-busybox versions of these programs, so
+         against my better judgement (since this will surely result in plenty
+         of support questions on the mailing list), I do not force you to
+         enable these additional options.  It is up to you to supply either
+         "ifconfig" and "route" or the "ip" command, either via busybox or via
+         standalone utilities.
+
+# I really should force these to be enabled
+#    && CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE
+# but then people could not use the full-blown iproute2 program...
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP
        bool "  Use ip applet"
        default n
-       depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN && CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE
+       depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN 
        help
-         Use "ip" in "ifupdown".
+         Use the iproute "ip" command to implement "ifupdown".  You will
+         probably want to also enable CONFIG_IP, CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS,
+         CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK, and CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE.  Of course
+         if you wanted to use the full-blown iproute2 program you could
+         leave the the busybox CONFIG_IP* options disabled.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPV4
        bool "  Enable support for IPv4"