[lustre-devel] [PATCH 3/4] staging: lustre: add help section of Kconfig config LNET

James Simmons jsimmons at infradead.org
Tue Mar 8 14:35:28 PST 2016


Include a help section for Kconfig LNET.

Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons at infradead.org>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig |    8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig
index 9c85091..980ce44 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 config LNET
-	tristate "Lustre networking subsystem"
+	tristate "Lustre networking subsystem (LNet)"
 	depends on LUSTRE_FS
+	help
+	  The Lustre network layer, also known as LNet, is a networking abstaction
+	  level API that was initially created to allow Lustre Filesystem to utilize
+	  very different networks like tcp and ib verbs in a uniform way. In the
+	  case of Lustre routers only the LNet layer is required. Lately other
+	  projects are also looking into using LNet as their networking API as well.
 
 config LNET_MAX_PAYLOAD
 	int "Lustre lnet max transfer payload (default 1MB)"
-- 
1.7.1



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