From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754080Ab3KGQ26 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:28:58 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:58172 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751484Ab3KGQ24 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:28:56 -0500 Message-ID: <527BBFC4.4020307@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:28:52 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Howells CC: LKML , Andrew Morton , Al Viro , lailavrazda1979@gmail.com Subject: [PATCH v2] kcore: add Kconfig help text References: <527B2A76.2000501@infradead.org> <15490.1383839848@warthog.procyon.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <15490.1383839848@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Randy Dunlap Under Pseudo filesystems, /proc/kcore support has no help. Fixes a portion of kernel bugzilla #52671: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52671 Thanks for David Howells for the help text. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Reported-by: lailavrazda1979@gmail.com --- fs/proc/Kconfig | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- lnx-312.orig/fs/proc/Kconfig +++ lnx-312/fs/proc/Kconfig @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ config PROC_FS config PROC_KCORE bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM depends on PROC_FS && MMU + help + Provides a virtual ELF core file of the live kernel. This can + be read with gdb and other ELF tools. No modifications can be + made using this mechanism. config PROC_VMCORE bool "/proc/vmcore support"