Patch from Lars Kellogg-Stedman:

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

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 8 deletions

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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