linux-kernel - [PATCH] kcore: add Kconfig help text

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Message-ID: <527B2A76.2000501@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:51:50 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, lailavrazda1979@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH] kcore: add Kconfig help text

From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Under Pseudo filesystems, /proc/kcore support has no help,
so add some.

Fixes a portion of kernel bugzilla #52671:
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52671

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Reported-by: lailavrazda1979@...il.com
---
Would anyone like to expand on this help text?
Thanks.

 fs/proc/Kconfig |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- lnx-312.orig/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ lnx-312/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ config PROC_FS
 config PROC_KCORE
 	bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
 	depends on PROC_FS && MMU
+	help
+	  Exports kernel core in ELF format.
 
 config PROC_VMCORE
 	bool "/proc/vmcore support"
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