Allow people to use the full blown iproute2 programs with busybox ifupdown.

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/networking/Config.in b/networking/Config.in
index 26b427084..406b99163 100644
--- a/networking/Config.in
+++ b/networking/Config.in
@@ -176,14 +176,31 @@ config CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
         bool "ifupdown"
         default n
         help
-          Activate or deactivate the specified interface.
-
+          Activate or deactivate the specified interfaces.  This applet makes
+          use of either "ifconfig" and "route" or the "ip" command to actually
+          configure network interfaces.  Therefore, you will probably also want
+          to enable either CONFIG_IFCONFIG and CONFIG_ROUTE, or enable
+          CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP and the various CONFIG_IP options.  Of
+          course you could use non-busybox versions of these programs, so
+          against my better judgement (since this will surely result in plenty
+          of support questions on the mailing list), I do not force you to
+          enable these additional options.  It is up to you to supply either
+          "ifconfig" and "route" or the "ip" command, either via busybox or via
+          standalone utilities.
+
+# I really should force these to be enabled
+#    && CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE
+# but then people could not use the full-blown iproute2 program...
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP
         bool "  Use ip applet"
         default n
-        depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN && CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE
+        depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN 
         help
-          Use "ip" in "ifupdown".
+          Use the iproute "ip" command to implement "ifupdown".  You will
+          probably want to also enable CONFIG_IP, CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS,
+          CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK, and CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE.  Of course
+          if you wanted to use the full-blown iproute2 program you could
+          leave the the busybox CONFIG_IP* options disabled.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPV4
         bool "  Enable support for IPv4"