linux-kernel - [PATCH] partitions: Enhance Kconfig help text for EESOX and MSDOS formats

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.0.83.0704071322440.9798@sigma.j-a-k-j.com>
Date:	Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:27:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>
To:	aeb@....nl
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] partitions: Enhance Kconfig help text for EESOX and MSDOS
 formats

From: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@...-k-j.com>

Adds help text for ACORN_PARTITION_EESOX and improves help text for 
MSDOS_PARTITION in fs/partitions/Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@...-k-j.com>

---

Applied against Linux v2.6.20.6.

--- linux-2.6.20.6-orig/fs/partitions/Kconfig	2007-04-06 16:02:48.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.20.6-mod/fs/partitions/Kconfig	2007-04-07 13:22:17.000000000 -0400
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ config ACORN_PARTITION_EESOX
 	bool "EESOX partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
 	default y if ARCH_ACORN
 	depends on ACORN_PARTITION
+	help
+	  EESOX SCSI card on-disk partition format support for Acorn
+	  systems. If you have one of these cards, or want to use a disk
+	  written by one, say Y.
 
 config ACORN_PARTITION_ICS
 	bool "ICS partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
@@ -108,7 +112,11 @@ config MSDOS_PARTITION
 	bool "PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
 	default y
 	help
-	  Say Y here.
+	  Standard PC-compatible partition table support for Linux. Used by
+	  i386 systems, Linux/Windows dual-boot systems, and many others.
+	  Unless you are certain your system does not use this partition
+	  table format, and you're not using any disks from a system that
+	  does, say Y.
 
 config BSD_DISKLABEL
 	bool "BSD disklabel (FreeBSD partition tables) support"
-
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