Author: hauke
Date: 2014-09-13 22:27:52 +0200 (Sat, 13 Sep 2014)
New Revision: 42520

Modified:
   trunk/config/Config-devel.in
Log:
Kconfig: Fix missing help text in DEVEL config menu

This patch completes missing help text for some options under CONFIG_DEVEL.

Provides help for BINARY_FOLDER and DOWNLOAD_FOLDER, and reduces ambiguity in
the help for BUILD_SUFFIX with an example.

Signed-off-by: Andrew McDonnell <[email protected]>


Modified: trunk/config/Config-devel.in
===================================================================
--- trunk/config/Config-devel.in        2014-09-13 20:27:25 UTC (rev 42519)
+++ trunk/config/Config-devel.in        2014-09-13 20:27:52 UTC (rev 42520)
@@ -15,10 +15,19 @@
        config BINARY_FOLDER
                string "Binary folder" if DEVEL
                default ""
+               help
+                 Store built firmware images and filesystem images in this 
directory.
+                 If not set, uses './bin/$(BOARD)'
 
        config DOWNLOAD_FOLDER
                string "Download folder" if DEVEL
                default ""
+               help
+                 Store downloaded source bundles in this directory.
+                 If not set then defaults to './dl', which is removed by 
operations such as
+                 'git clean -xdf' or 'make distclean'.
+                 This option is useful if you have a low bandwidth Internet 
connection, and by
+                 setting a path outside the OpenWRT tree downloads will be 
saved.
 
        config LOCALMIRROR
                string "Local mirror for source packages" if DEVEL
@@ -31,10 +40,12 @@
                  Automatically rebuild packages when their files change.
 
        config BUILD_SUFFIX
-               string "Build suffix to append to the BUILD_DIR variable" if 
DEVEL
+               string "Build suffix to append to the target BUILD_DIR 
variable" if DEVEL
                default ""
                help
-                 Build suffix to append to the BUILD_DIR variable, i.e: 
build_dir_suffix.
+                 Build suffix to append to the BUILD_DIR variable, i.e: 
'./build_dir/{target-build-dir}_$(BUILD_SUFFIX)'.
+                 This allows you to switch to a different .config whilst 
retaining all the build
+                 objects generated by the first .config
 
        config TARGET_ROOTFS_DIR
                string "Override the default TARGET_ROOTFS_DIR variable" if 
DEVEL
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