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

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:44:20 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Nick Andrew <nick@...k-andrew.net>, trivial@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 3/9]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:16:53 +0300 Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

> Nick Andrew wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:42:07PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> >> 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 :)
> > 
> > So far I have edited only init/Kconfig, that's what these 9
> > patches are for. Next I'll do block/Kconfig. Eventually I expect
> > to get to net/Kconfig which is where NET_NS is configured,
> > but I don't know where UTS_NS and IPC_NS come from in 2.6.24.2.
> > 
> > I expect I'll have to start patching against a git tree soon,
> > to be sure to see the latest code. I assume this should be
> > Linus' tree?
> 
> Both UTS_NS and IPC_NS are in init/Kconfg. At least they are
> in 2.6.25-rc2 :)

Yes, these patches should be made against the latest development
tree, not the stable tree.


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~Randy
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