linux-kernel - Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 3/9]

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Message-ID: <20080219143307.GA27352@tull.net>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:33:07 +1100
From:	Nick Andrew <nick@...k-andrew.net>
To:	trivial@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 3/9]

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

Changelog:

Improve usefulness and consistency of kernel configuration help messages.

Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@...k-andrew.net>

--- 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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