Patch from Terje Kvernes adding quite a lot of missing documentation

git-svn-id: svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox@7093 69ca8d6d-28ef-0310-b511-8ec308f3f277

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/networking/Config.in b/networking/Config.in
index 4c5cb8526..d53dddcc1 100644
--- a/networking/Config.in
+++ b/networking/Config.in
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6
         bool "Enable IPv6 support"
         default n
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Enable IPv6 support to busybox. This makes applets that talk IP
+          able to work with IPv6.
 
 config CONFIG_ARPING
         bool "arping"
@@ -143,7 +144,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_SLIP
         default n
         depends on CONFIG_IFCONFIG
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Allow "keepalive" and "outfill" support for SLIP.  If you're not
+          planning on using serial lines, leave this unchecked.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_MEMSTART_IOADDR_IRQ
         bool "  Enable options \"mem_start\", \"io_addr\", and \"irq\""
@@ -167,7 +169,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_BROADCAST_PLUS
         default n
         depends on CONFIG_IFCONFIG
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Setting this will make ifconfig attempt to find the broadcast
+          automatically if the value '+' is used.
 
 config CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
         bool "ifupdown"
@@ -180,28 +183,29 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP
         default n
         depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN && CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Use "ip" in "ifupdown".
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPV4
         bool "  Enable support for IPv4"
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          If you want busybox to talk IPv4, leave this on.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPV6
         bool "  Enable support for IPv6"
         default n
         depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          If you need support for IPv6, turn this option on.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPX
         bool "  Enable support for IPX"
         default n
         depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          If this option is selected you can use busybox to work with IPX
+          networks.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_MAPPING
         bool "  Enable mapping support"
@@ -257,7 +261,9 @@ config CONFIG_IP
         bool "ip"
         default n
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          The "ip" applet is a TCP/IP interface configuration and routing
+          utility.  You generally don't need "ip" to use busybox with
+          TCP/IP.
 
 if CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPADDR
         config CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS
@@ -270,7 +276,7 @@ if ! (CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPADDR)
                 default y
                 depends on CONFIG_IP
                 help
-                  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+                  Address manipulation support for the "ip" applet.
 endif
 
 if CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPLINK
@@ -284,7 +290,7 @@ if !(CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPLINK)
                 default y
                 depends on CONFIG_IP
                 help
-                  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+                  Configure network devices with "ip".
 endif
 
 if CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPROUTE
@@ -298,7 +304,7 @@ if !(CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPROUTE)
                 default y
                 depends on CONFIG_IP
                 help
-                  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+                  Add support for routing table management to "ip".  
 endif
 
 if CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPTUNNEL
@@ -312,7 +318,7 @@ if !(CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPTUNNEL)
                 default n
                 depends on CONFIG_IP
                 help
-                  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+                  Add support for tunneling commands to "ip".
 endif
 
 config CONFIG_IPCALC
@@ -327,31 +333,31 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_IPCALC_FANCY
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_IPCALC
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Adds the fields hostname and silent to the output of "ipcalc".
 
 config CONFIG_IPADDR
         bool "ipaddr"
         default n
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Equivalent to selecting address support to "ip", above.
 
 config CONFIG_IPLINK
         bool "iplink"
         default n
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Equivalent to selecting link support to "ip", above.
 
 config CONFIG_IPROUTE
         bool "iproute"
         default n
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Equivalent to selecting route support to "ip", above.
 
 config CONFIG_IPTUNNEL
         bool "iptunnel"
         default n
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Equivalent to selecting tunnel support to "ip", above.
 
 config CONFIG_NAMEIF
         bool "nameif"
@@ -384,7 +390,7 @@ config CONFIG_NSLOOKUP
         bool "nslookup"
         default n
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Nslookup is a tool to query Internet name servers.
 
 config CONFIG_PING
         bool "ping"
@@ -398,21 +404,23 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_PING
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_PING
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Make the output from the ping applet include statistics, and at the
+          same time provide full support for ICMP packets.
 
 config CONFIG_PING6
         bool "ping6"
         default n
         depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          This will give you a ping that can talk IPv6.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_PING6
         bool "  Enable fancy ping6 output"
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_PING6
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Make the output from the ping6 applet include statistics, and at the
+          same time provide full support for ICMP packets.
 
 config CONFIG_ROUTE
         bool "route"
@@ -424,27 +432,34 @@ config CONFIG_TELNET
         bool "telnet"
         default n
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Telnet is an interface to the TELNET protocol, but is also commonly
+          used to test other simple protocols.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNET_TTYPE
         bool "  Pass TERM type to remote host"
         default y
         depends on CONFIG_TELNET
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Setting this option will forward the TERM environment variable to the
+          remote host you are connecting to.  This is useful to make sure that
+          things like ANSI colors and other control sequences behave.
 
 config CONFIG_TELNETD
         bool "telnetd"
         default n
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          A daemon for the TELNET protocol, allowing you to log on to the host
+          running the daemon.  Please keep in mind that the TELNET protocol
+          sends passwords in plain text.  If you can't afford the space for
+          any SSH daemon and you trust your network, say 'y' here.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNETD_INETD
         bool "  Support call from inetd only"
         default n
         depends on CONFIG_TELNETD
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Selecting this will make telnetd only callable from inetd, removing the
+          standalone support.
 
 config CONFIG_TFTP
         bool "tftp"
@@ -482,7 +497,9 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TFTP_DEBUG
         default n
         depends on CONFIG_TFTP
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Enable debug settings for tftp.  This is useful if you're running
+          into problems with tftp as the protocol doesn't help you much when
+          you run into problems.
 
 config CONFIG_TRACEROUTE
         bool "traceroute"
@@ -495,7 +512,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_VERBOSE
         default n
         depends on CONFIG_TRACEROUTE
         help
-          Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+          Add some verbosity to traceroute.  This includes amongst other things
+          hostnames and ICMP response types.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_SO_DEBUG
         bool "  Enable SO_DEBUG option"