Patch from Lars Kellogg-Stedman:

    The attached two patches add config documentation to init/Config.in and
    fileutils/Config.in.

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/findutils/Config.in b/findutils/Config.in
index cac11f77b..e904587e4 100644
--- a/findutils/Config.in
+++ b/findutils/Config.in
@@ -16,28 +16,31 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_MTIME
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_FIND
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Allow searching based on the modification time of
+          files.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_PERM
         bool "  Enable permissions matching (-perm) option"
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_FIND
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Enable searching based on file permissions.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_TYPE
         bool "  Enable filetype matching (-type) option"
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_FIND
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Enable searching based on file type (file,
+          directory, socket, device, etc.).
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_XDEV
         bool "  Enable stay in filesystem (-xdev) option"
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_FIND
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          This option will restrict find to a single
+          filesystem.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_NEWER
         bool "  Enable -newer option for comparing file mtimes"
@@ -65,7 +68,9 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_GREP
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Enabled support for extended regular expressions.  Extended
+          regular expressions allow for alternation (foo|bar), grouping,
+          and various repetition operators.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_FGREP_ALIAS
         bool "  Alias fgrep to grep -f"
@@ -81,7 +86,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_CONTEXT
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_GREP
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Enable match context in results.  This will display a number
+          of lines preceding and/or trailing matches.
 
 config CONFIG_XARGS
         bool "xargs"
diff --git a/init/Config.in b/init/Config.in
index 0316399e6..d56cd5540 100644
--- a/init/Config.in
+++ b/init/Config.in
@@ -30,14 +30,18 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_INIT
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          If this option is enabled and the file /.init_enable_core
+          exists, then init will call setrlimit() to allow unlimited
+          core file sizes.  If this option is disabled, processes
+          will not generate any core files.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET
         bool "  Should init be _extra_ quiet on boot?"
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_INIT
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Prevent init from logging some messages to the console
+          during boot.
 
 # Some apps that are meaningless without BusyBox running as init
 config CONFIG_HALT
@@ -45,27 +49,30 @@ config CONFIG_HALT
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_INIT
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Stop all processes.
 
 config CONFIG_POWEROFF
         bool "poweroff"
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_INIT
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Stop all processes and (try to) power off the system.
 
 config CONFIG_REBOOT
         bool "reboot"
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_INIT
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Stop all processes and reboot the system.
 
 config CONFIG_MINIT
         bool "minit"
         default n
         help
-          Minimal init, based on minit v0.9.1
+          Minimal init, based on minit v0.9.1.  This is a simple
+          init replacement that handles starting/stopping services,
+          and service dependencies.  See http://www.fefe.de/minit/
+          for additional information.
 
 config CONFIG_PIDFILEHACK
         bool "pidfilehack"
@@ -86,13 +93,17 @@ config CONFIG_START_STOP_DAEMON
         bool "start-stop-daemon"
         default y
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          start-stop-daemon is used to control the creation and
+          termination of system-level processes, usually the ones
+          started during the startup of the system.
 
 config CONFIG_MESG
         bool "mesg"
         default y
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Mesg  controls  the  access to your terminal by others.  It
+          is typically used to allow or disallow other users to write
+          to your  terminal
 
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