From 6754bb4de94098a0aaa23a600f0edb9a9454c252 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:57:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: fix the explanation of Kconfig files

Fix the obvious errors in the explanation of Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 Documentation/CodingStyle | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index afc2867758914..b49b92edb3968 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -495,29 +495,40 @@ re-formatting you may want to take a look at the man page.  But
 remember: "indent" is not a fix for bad programming.
 
 
-		Chapter 10: Configuration-files
+		Chapter 10: Kconfig configuration files
 
-For configuration options (arch/xxx/Kconfig, and all the Kconfig files),
-somewhat different indentation is used.
+For all of the Kconfig* configuration files throughout the source tree,
+the indentation is somewhat different.  Lines under a "config" definition
+are indented with one tab, while help text is indented an additional two
+spaces.  Example:
 
-Help text is indented with 2 spaces.
-
-if CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
-	tristate CONFIG_BOOM
-	default n
-	help
-	  Apply nitroglycerine inside the keyboard (DANGEROUS)
-	bool CONFIG_CHEER
-	depends on CONFIG_BOOM
-	default y
+config AUDIT
+	bool "Auditing support"
+	depends on NET
 	help
-	  Output nice messages when you explode
-endif
+	  Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
+	  kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
+	  logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
+	  auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
+
+Features that might still be considered unstable should be defined as
+dependent on "EXPERIMENTAL":
+
+config SLUB
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT
+	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
+	...
+
+while seriously dangerous features (such as write support for certain
+filesystems) should advertise this prominently in their prompt string:
+
+config ADFS_FS_RW
+	bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
+	depends on ADFS_FS
+	...
 
-Generally, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL should surround all options not considered
-stable. All options that are known to trash data (experimental write-
-support for file-systems, for instance) should be denoted (DANGEROUS), other
-experimental options should be denoted (EXPERIMENTAL).
+For full documentation on the configuration files, see the file
+Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.
 
 
 		Chapter 11: Data structures
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