From: Cruz Julian Bishop Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:00:46 +0000 (+1000) Subject: staging: android: Add some Kconfig help entries X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7f9729f6e06c9613a88a18c4e1fbbdf2f6146fd;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git staging: android: Add some Kconfig help entries This commit adds Kconfig entries for the following: 1: ANDROID_BINDER_IPC 2: ASHMEM (additional text) 3: ANDROID_LOGGER It also changes "Register" to "Registers" in ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER Finally, all "help" instances are changed to "---help---", as recommended by kconfig-language.txt in order to visually aid developers. Signed-off-by: Cruz Julian Bishop Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig index 0ce50d12c30f..465a28c08f20 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig @@ -11,19 +11,42 @@ if ANDROID config ANDROID_BINDER_IPC bool "Android Binder IPC Driver" default n + ---help--- + Binder is used in Android for both communication between processes, + and remote method invocation. + + This means one Android process can call a method/routine in another + Android process, using Binder to identify, invoke and pass arguments + between said processes. config ASHMEM bool "Enable the Anonymous Shared Memory Subsystem" default n depends on SHMEM || TINY_SHMEM - help + ---help--- The ashmem subsystem is a new shared memory allocator, similar to POSIX SHM but with different behavior and sporting a simpler file-based API. + It is, in theory, a good memory allocator for low-memory devices, + because it can discard shared memory units when under memory pressure. + config ANDROID_LOGGER tristate "Android log driver" default n + ---help--- + This adds support for system-wide logging using four log buffers. + + These are: + + 1: main + 2: events + 3: radio + 4: system + + Log reading and writing is performed via normal Linux reads and + optimized writes. This optimization avoids logging having too + much overhead in the system. config ANDROID_TIMED_OUTPUT bool "Timed output class driver" @@ -38,13 +61,13 @@ config ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER bool "Android Low Memory Killer" default N ---help--- - Register processes to be killed when memory is low + Registers processes to be killed when memory is low config ANDROID_INTF_ALARM_DEV bool "Android alarm driver" depends on RTC_CLASS default n - help + ---help--- Provides non-wakeup and rtc backed wakeup alarms based on rtc or elapsed realtime, and a non-wakeup alarm on the monotonic clock. Also exports the alarm interface to user-space.