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-rw-r--r--miscutils/Config.in22
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.
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