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authorJochen Frieling <j.frieling@pengutronix.de>2007-10-18 11:16:44 +0000
committerJochen Frieling <j.frieling@pengutronix.de>2007-10-18 11:16:44 +0000
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* help texts in m*.in rounded off, some fixes
git-svn-id: https://svn.pengutronix.de/svn/ptxdist/trunks/ptxdist-trunk@7479 33e552b5-05e3-0310-8538-816dae2090ed
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diff --git a/rules/mtd-utils.in b/rules/mtd-utils.in
index 3d44932ce..dfda8c107 100644
--- a/rules/mtd-utils.in
+++ b/rules/mtd-utils.in
@@ -2,130 +2,139 @@ menuconfig MTD_UTILS
bool "mtd-utils "
select ZLIB
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ mtdutils is a set of utilities for doing low-level operations on flash devices.
config MTD_UTILS_FLASH_ERASE
bool
prompt "flash_erase"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ erase parts of a MTD device
config MTD_UTILS_FLASH_ERASEALL
bool
prompt "flash_eraseall"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ erase the whole of a MTD device
config MTD_UTILS_FLASH_INFO
bool
prompt "flash_info"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ print info about a MTD device
config MTD_UTILS_FLASH_LOCK
bool
prompt "flash_lock"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ This utility locks one or more sectors of flash device.
config MTD_UTILS_FLASH_UNLOCK
bool
prompt "flash_unlock"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ This utility unlock all sectors of flash device.
config MTD_UTILS_FLASHCP
bool
prompt "flashcp"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ Flash Copy - Written by Abraham van der Merwe
config MTD_UTILS_FTL_CHECK
bool
prompt "ftl_check"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ Utility to check an FTL partition
config MTD_UTILS_FTL_FORMAT
bool
prompt "ftl_format"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ Utility to create an FTL partition in a memory region
config MTD_UTILS_JFFS2_DUMP
bool
prompt "jffs2_dump"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ This utility dumps the contents of a binary JFFS2 image
#config MTD_UTILS_JFFS2READER
# bool
# prompt "jffs2reader"
# depends on MTD_UTILS
# help
-# FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+# A jffs2 image reader
config MTD_UTILS_JITTERTEST
bool
prompt "jittertest"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ This program is used to measure what the jitter of a
+ real time task would be under "standard" Linux.
+
+ More particularly, what is the effect of running
+ a real time task under Linux with background
+ JFFS file system activity.
config MTD_UTILS_MTDDEBUG
bool
prompt "mtd_debug"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ Does info, read, write and erase on mtd devices
config MTD_UTILS_NANDDUMP
bool
prompt "nanddump"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ This utility dumps the contents of raw NAND chips or NAND
+ chips contained in DoC devices.
config MTD_UTILS_NANDWRITE
bool
prompt "nandwrite"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ This utility writes a binary image directly to a NAND flash
+ chip or NAND chips contained in DoC devices. This is the
+ "inverse operation" of nanddump.
config MTD_UTILS_NFTL_FORMAT
bool
prompt "nftl_format"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ Creating a NFTL/INFTL partition on an MTD device
config MTD_UTILS_NFTLDUMP
bool
prompt "nftldump"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ Dumping the content of NFTL partitions on a "Physical Disk"
config MTD_UTILS_MKJFFS
bool
prompt "mkfs.jffs"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ Build a JFFS image in a file, from a given directory tree.
config MTD_UTILS_MKJFFS2
bool
prompt "mkfs.jffs2"
depends on MTD_UTILS
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ Build a JFFS2 image in a file, from a given directory tree.
+