Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2015-07-09

Re: [PATCH] fs, proc: add help for CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN

From: Jean Delvare <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-09 09:04:16
Also in: linux-fsdevel

Le Wednesday 08 July 2015 à 22:28 +0200, Iago López Galeiras a écrit :
quoted hunk
The purpose of the option was documented in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt but the help text was missing.

Add small help text that also points to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Iago López Galeiras <iago-973cpzSjLbNWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
---
 fs/proc/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig
index d751fcb..1ade120 100644
--- a/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -75,3 +75,9 @@ config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
 config PROC_CHILDREN
 	bool "Include /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children file"
 	default n
+	help
+	  Provides a fast way to retrieve first level children pids of a task. See
+	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> for more information.
+
+	  Say Y if you are running any user-space software which takes benefit from
+	  this interface. For example, rkt is such a piece of software.
Thanks for doing that.

Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <redacted>

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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