Patch from Lars Kellogg-Stedman:

    The attached two patches add config documentation to init/Config.in and
    fileutils/Config.in.

diff --git a/findutils/Config.in b/findutils/Config.in
index cac11f77badd7db862c8e6ef01eac3f06c1a753c..e904587e4ab3339af93f9226027de230f8ebef80 100644 (file)
--- a/findutils/Config.in
+++ b/findutils/Config.in
@@ -16,28 +16,31 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_MTIME
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_FIND
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Allow searching based on the modification time of
+         files.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_PERM
        bool "  Enable permissions matching (-perm) option"
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_FIND
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Enable searching based on file permissions.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_TYPE
        bool "  Enable filetype matching (-type) option"
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_FIND
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Enable searching based on file type (file,
+         directory, socket, device, etc.).
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_XDEV
        bool "  Enable stay in filesystem (-xdev) option"
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_FIND
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         This option will restrict find to a single
+         filesystem.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_NEWER
        bool "  Enable -newer option for comparing file mtimes"
@@ -65,7 +68,9 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_GREP
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Enabled support for extended regular expressions.  Extended
+         regular expressions allow for alternation (foo|bar), grouping,
+         and various repetition operators.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_FGREP_ALIAS
        bool "  Alias fgrep to grep -f"
@@ -81,7 +86,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_CONTEXT
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_GREP
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Enable match context in results.  This will display a number
+         of lines preceding and/or trailing matches.
 
 config CONFIG_XARGS
        bool "xargs"

diff --git a/init/Config.in b/init/Config.in
index 0316399e6406ad0390a49b06aa6b50f19a0e41d5..d56cd5540b26dc6a1c41c996c12eb0c1f9393ca2 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Config.in
+++ b/init/Config.in
@@ -30,14 +30,18 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_INIT
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         If this option is enabled and the file /.init_enable_core
+         exists, then init will call setrlimit() to allow unlimited
+         core file sizes.  If this option is disabled, processes
+         will not generate any core files.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET
        bool "  Should init be _extra_ quiet on boot?"
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_INIT
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Prevent init from logging some messages to the console
+         during boot.
 
 # Some apps that are meaningless without BusyBox running as init
 config CONFIG_HALT
@@ -45,27 +49,30 @@ config CONFIG_HALT
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_INIT
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Stop all processes.
 
 config CONFIG_POWEROFF
        bool "poweroff"
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_INIT
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Stop all processes and (try to) power off the system.
 
 config CONFIG_REBOOT
        bool "reboot"
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_INIT
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Stop all processes and reboot the system.
 
 config CONFIG_MINIT
        bool "minit"
        default n
        help
-         Minimal init, based on minit v0.9.1
+         Minimal init, based on minit v0.9.1.  This is a simple
+         init replacement that handles starting/stopping services,
+         and service dependencies.  See http://www.fefe.de/minit/
+         for additional information.
 
 config CONFIG_PIDFILEHACK
        bool "pidfilehack"
@@ -86,13 +93,17 @@ config CONFIG_START_STOP_DAEMON
        bool "start-stop-daemon"
        default y
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         start-stop-daemon is used to control the creation and
+         termination of system-level processes, usually the ones
+         started during the startup of the system.
 
 config CONFIG_MESG
        bool "mesg"
        default y
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Mesg  controls  the  access to your terminal by others.  It
+         is typically used to allow or disallow other users to write
+         to your  terminal
 
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