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Diffstat (limited to 'miscutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | miscutils/Config.in | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/miscutils/Config.in b/miscutils/Config.in index 86be4d3a8..fbdcbcc7b 100644 --- a/miscutils/Config.in +++ b/miscutils/Config.in @@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ config CONFIG_DUTMP bool "dutmp" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + 'dutmp' is a utility used by the Linux Router Project (as far as I + know nobody else uses it). It dumps the contents of the utmp file in + a format that can be parsed by shell scripts. config CONFIG_HDPARM bool "hdparm" @@ -93,7 +95,10 @@ config CONFIG_MAKEDEVS bool "makedevs" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + 'makedevs' is a utility used and created by the Linux Router Project. + It creates a large number of device special files (/dev devices) + rather quickly, and can be considerably faster then running mknod a + zillion times. config CONFIG_MT bool "mt" @@ -118,17 +123,16 @@ config CONFIG_TIME When the command finishes, time writes a message to standard output giving timing statistics about this program run. -config CONFIG_UPDATE - bool "update" - default n - help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. - config CONFIG_WATCHDOG bool "watchdog" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + The watchdog utility is used with hardware or softwate watchdog + device drivers. It opens the specified watchdog device special file + and periodically writes a magic character to the device. If the + watchdog applet ever fails to write the magic character within a + certain amount of time, the watchdog device assumes that means the + system has hung, and it will therefore cause the hardware to reboot. endmenu |