[BusyBox] documentation patch and what's missing.

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Sat Jul 26 08:12:15 UTC 2003


On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 10:10:39PM +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>   now, only two options are yet to be documented:
> 
>   from modutils/Config.in
> 
>     * CONFIG_FEATURE_INSMOD_LOADINKMEM
> 
>       this only works under uClinux and only with regards to module
>       loading.  from reading the code we do indeed seem to be stuffing
>       a module directly into kernel memory, but I'm rather unsure as
>       the implications this has for insmod.

Thanks, I already documented this one.

>   from networking/Config.in
> 
>     * CONFIG_FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_SO_DEBUG
> 
>       this basically just sets the SO_DEBUG flag on the socket.  as
>       far as I can tell, this just makes the kernel a bit noisy when
>       you're using traceroute.  is there any other documentation one
>       should add?

I simply removed this option from the config system, since it is
really only intended for someone actively hacking on traceroute
and should not be generally accessible.

> diff -ur busybox/miscutils/Config.in busybox-patched/miscutils/Config.in
> --- busybox/miscutils/Config.in 2003-07-14 21:36:58.000000000 +0200
> +++ busybox-patched/miscutils/Config.in 2003-07-22 21:43:15.103579262 +0200
> @@ -37,13 +37,15 @@
>         bool "dutmp"
>         default n
>         help
> -         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
> +         Dump colon seperated utmp information to STDOUT.  IP addresses
> +         are given in hex, little endian on x86.

Thanks for the patch.  I had documented these ones, but your
description was better than mine in several cases, so I merged
the two...

 -Erik

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