- improve helptext of obsolete devfs stuff..

diff --git a/miscutils/Config.in b/miscutils/Config.in
index f15547db11d8723adcb629913db510fb00f6853e..c8d7253d894c5720a208b0c63886952a48542bca 100644 (file)
--- a/miscutils/Config.in
+++ b/miscutils/Config.in
@@ -158,7 +158,10 @@ config DEVFSD
        default n
        select FEATURE_SYSLOG
        help
-         This is deprecated, and will be removed at the end of 2008.
+         This is deprecated and should NOT be used anymore.
+         Use linux >= 2.6 (optionally with hotplug) and mdev instead!
+         See docs/mdev.txt for detailed instructions on how to use mdev
+         instead.
 
          Provides compatibility with old device names on a devfs systems.
          You should set it to true if you have devfs enabled.
@@ -197,9 +200,11 @@ config FEATURE_DEVFS
        bool "Use devfs names for all devices (obsolete)"
        default n
        help
-         This is obsolete and will be going away at the end of 2008..
+         This is obsolete and should NOT be used anymore.
+         Use linux >= 2.6 (optionally with hotplug) and mdev instead!
 
-         This tells busybox to look for names like /dev/loop/0 instead of
+         For legacy systems -- if there is no way around devfsd -- this
+         tells busybox to look for names like /dev/loop/0 instead of
          /dev/loop0. If your /dev directory has normal names instead of
          devfs names, you don't want this.