Patch from Kent Robotti adding a bunch of needed docs! -Erik
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| @@ -206,8 +206,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS | |
| default y | |
| depends on CONFIG_TAR | |
| help | |
| - | With this option busybox supports the GNU long filename |
| - | and linkanmes. |
| + | With this option busybox supports GNU long filenames and |
| + | linknames. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_UNARCHIVE_TAPE | |
| bool " Enable tape drive support" | |
| @@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_DATE_ISOFMT | |
| default y | |
| depends on CONFIG_DATE | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | Enable option (-I) to output an ISO-8601 compliant |
| + | date/time string. |
| config CONFIG_DD | |
| bool "dd" | |
| @@ -9,25 +9,26 @@ config CONFIG_MKTEMP | |
| bool "mktemp" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | mktemp is used to create unique temporary files |
| config CONFIG_READLINK | |
| bool "readlink" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | This program reads a symbolic link and returns the name |
| + | of the file it points to |
| config CONFIG_RUN_PARTS | |
| bool "run-parts" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | run-parts is an utility designed to run all the scripts in a directory. |
| + | run-parts is a utility designed to run all the scripts in a directory. |
| It is useful to set up a directory like cron.daily, where you need to | |
| execute all the scripts in that directory. | |
| - | This implementation of run-parts doesn't accept long options, and |
| - | some features (like report mode) aren't implemented. |
| + | This implementation of run-parts does not accept long options, and |
| + | some features (such as report mode) are not implemented. |
| Unless you know that run-parts is used in some of your scripts | |
| you can safely say N here. | |
| @@ -36,7 +37,8 @@ config CONFIG_WHICH | |
| bool "which" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | which is used to find programs in your PATH and |
| + | print out their pathnames. |
| endmenu | |
| @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ config CONFIG_SED | |
| bool "sed" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | sed is used to perform text transformations on a file |
| + | or input from a pipeline. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_SED_EMBEDED_NEWLINE | |
| bool " Embeded newline (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
| @@ -43,7 +44,10 @@ config CONFIG_VI | |
| bool "vi" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | 'vi' is a text editor. More specifically, it is the One True |
| + | text editor <grin>. It does, however, have a rather steep |
| + | learning curve. If you are not already comfortable with 'vi' |
| + | you may wish to use something else. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_VI_COLON | |
| bool " Enable \":\" colon commands (no \"ex\" mode)" | |
| @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config CONFIG_FIND | |
| bool "find" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | find is used to search your system to find specified files. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_MTIME | |
| bool " Enable modified time matching (-mtime) option" | |
| @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ config CONFIG_GREP | |
| bool "grep" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | grep is used to search files for a specified pattern. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS | |
| bool " Support extended regular expressions (egrep & grep -E)" | |
| @@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ config CONFIG_XARGS | |
| bool "xargs" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| - | |
| + | xargs is used to execute a specified command on |
| + | every item from standard input. |
| endmenu | |
| @@ -9,21 +9,21 @@ config CONFIG_INIT | |
| bool "init" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | init is the first program run when the system boots. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_INITTAB | |
| bool " Support reading an inittab file?" | |
| default y | |
| depends on CONFIG_INIT | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | Allow init to read an inittab file when the system boot. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_INITRD | |
| bool " Support running init from within an initrd?" | |
| default y | |
| depends on CONFIG_INIT | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | Allow init to be called from an initrd as linuxrc. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS | |
| bool " Support dumping core for child processes (debugging only)?" | |
| @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config CONFIG_INSMOD | |
| bool "insmod" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | insmod is used to load specified modules in the running kernel. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE | |
| bool " Support older (pre 2.1) Linux kernels" | |
| @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ config CONFIG_LSMOD | |
| bool "lsmod" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | lsmod is used to display a list of loaded modules. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_QUERY_MODULE_INTERFACE | |
| bool " Support lsmod query_module interface (add 638 bytes)" | |
| @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ config CONFIG_RMMOD | |
| bool "rmmod" | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| - | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. |
| + | rmmod is used to unload specified modules from the kernel. |
| config CONFIG_FEATURE_CHECK_TAINTED_MODULE | |
| bool "Support tainted module checking with new kernels" | |