[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Containers (V8): Cpusets hooked into containers

Paul Menage menage at google.com
Tue Apr 24 21:59:40 PDT 2007


On 4/23/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >  config CONTAINERS
> > -     bool "Container support"
> > -     help
> > -       This option will let you create and manage process containers,
> > -       which can be used to aggregate multiple processes, e.g. for
> > -       the purposes of resource tracking.
> > -
> > -       Say N if unsure
> > +     bool
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> This looks like some patch generation error.  Description for
> containers should not be removed after applying this patch.

No, this is intentional - in the first patch in the series,
CONFIG_CONTAINER was a user-selectable option so it had a description;
in the second it becomes an option that's only selected if other
selected systems (e.g. cpusets) depend on it. So it no longer needs
help text.

Cheers,

Paul




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