[BusyBox] documentation patch and what's missing.

Terje Kvernes terjekv at math.uio.no
Sun Jul 27 01:08:44 UTC 2003


Erik Andersen <andersen at codepoet.org> writes:

> On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 10:10:39PM +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>
>
> > 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.

  I eventually noticed that you'd documented the features yourself,
  but a very sloppy cache and a very sloppy me didn't get that
  information before I'd sent the patch.  oh well.
 
> > from networking/Config.in
> > 
> >  * CONFIG_FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_SO_DEBUG
> > 
>
> [ ... ]
>
> 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.

  so I see in the changelog.  :-)
 
> > 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...

  heh.  :-)

  and by the way, _great_ work on those Promise controllers!  thanks!

-- 
Terje



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