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authorJagan Teki <jteki@openedev.com>2015-05-18 19:50:17 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-05-24 13:27:13 -0700
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staging: android: Add more help description on Kconfig
This patch adds more help description on android Kconfig for - lowmemory killer - Timed gpio (same for timed output) Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jteki@openedev.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/android')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/android/Kconfig11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
index 8feb9048e62f..24d657b3ab99 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
@@ -22,11 +22,20 @@ config ANDROID_TIMED_GPIO
tristate "Android timed gpio driver"
depends on GPIOLIB && ANDROID_TIMED_OUTPUT
default n
+ ---help---
+ Unlike generic gpio is to allow programs to access and manipulate gpio
+ registers from user space, timed output/gpio is a system to allow changing
+ a gpio pin and restore it automatically after a specified timeout.
config ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER
bool "Android Low Memory Killer"
---help---
- Registers processes to be killed when memory is low
+ Registers processes to be killed when low memory conditions, this is useful
+ as there is no particular swap space on android.
+
+ The registered process will kills according to the priorities in android init
+ scripts (/init.rc), and it defines priority values with minimum free memory size
+ for each priority.
config SYNC
bool "Synchronization framework"
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