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authorIago López Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>2015-07-17 16:23:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-07-17 16:39:52 -0700
commitdb5d5b3665291836d31b5a7fe0a2a80079b82554 (patch)
tree4e717f4c6d245d68670e18ad7f629fd4775ce705
parentd8130624b06e6c686e04ee19861e54bff8955ad9 (diff)
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fs, proc: add help for CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN
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@endocode.com> Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/Kconfig6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig
index d751fcb637bb..1ade1206bb89 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.