Le Wednesday 08 July 2015 à 16:18 +0200, Iago López Galeiras a écrit : > On 07/04/2015 07:07 PM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 11:10:45 +0200, Iago López Galeiras wrote: > >> The purpose of this option is enabling /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children > >> without > >> having to enable CHECKPOINT_RESTORE, which is hidden behind EXPERT. > >> > >> Regarding its lack of help, documentation is in already in place[1] but > >> perhaps > >> that's not clear for the user because as you say the Kconfig help text is > >> missing. > >> > >> I suggest adding something like: > >> > >> Provides a fast way to retrieve first level children pids of a task. > >> See > >> <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> for more information. > >> > >> Do you think that's enough? > > > > That's a start, the reference to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt is > > good but I think we can do better. You need to help the user make the > > decision. Why should he/she say Y or N? The user should NOT have to look > > at an external documentation file if the answer is N. I would suggest > > the following: > > > > Say Y if running any user-space software which takes benefit from this > > interface. For example, rkt is such a piece of software. > > That makes it more clear for the user. Thanks!
You're welcome. Will you submit a patch, or should I take care of it? -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
