From 795c4bac917b3a300602b86ba0e10e517a3b0886 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:11:48 +0000 Subject: Write some more docs --- miscutils/Config.in | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 1 file 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 -- cgit v1.2.3