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Message-ID: <47BAEABF.6050005@openvz.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:42:07 +0300
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	Nick Andrew <nick@...k-andrew.net>
CC:	trivial@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 3/9]

Nick Andrew wrote:
> 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

What about UTS_NS, IPC_NS and NET_NS? 
Their descriptions can be improved in the same way :)

> 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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