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  1. #
  2. # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
  3. # see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt.
  4. #
  5. menu "Linux System Utilities"
  6. config CONFIG_DMESG
  7. bool "dmesg"
  8. default n
  9. help
  10. dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer. When the
  11. Linux kernel prints messages to the system log, they are stored in
  12. the kernel ring buffer. You can use dmesg to print the kernel's ring
  13. buffer, clear the kernel ring buffer, change the size of the kernel
  14. ring buffer, and change the priority level at which kernel messages
  15. are also logged to the system console. Enable this option if you
  16. wish to enable the 'dmesg' utility.
  17. config CONFIG_FBSET
  18. bool "fbset"
  19. default n
  20. help
  21. fbset is used to show or change the settings of a Linux frame buffer
  22. device. The frame buffer device provides a simple and unique
  23. interface to access a graphics display. Enable this option
  24. if you wish to enable the 'fbset' utility.
  25. config CONFIG_FEATURE_FBSET_FANCY
  26. bool " Turn on extra fbset options"
  27. default n
  28. depends on CONFIG_FBSET
  29. help
  30. This option enables extended fbset options, allowing one to set the
  31. framebuffer size, color depth, etc. interface to access a graphics
  32. display. Enable this option if you wish to enable extended fbset
  33. options.
  34. config CONFIG_FEATURE_FBSET_READMODE
  35. bool " Turn on fbset readmode support"
  36. default n
  37. depends on CONFIG_FBSET
  38. help
  39. This option allows fbset to read the video mode database stored by
  40. default as /etc/fb.modes, which can be used to set frame buffer
  41. device to pre-defined video modes.
  42. config CONFIG_FDFLUSH
  43. bool "fdflush"
  44. default n
  45. help
  46. fdflush is only needed when changing media on slightly-broken
  47. removable media drives. It is used to make Linux believe that a
  48. hardware disk-change switch has been actuated, which causes Linux to
  49. forget anything it has cached from the previous media. If you have
  50. such a slightly-broken drive, you will need to run fdflush every time
  51. you change a disk. Most people have working hardware and can safely
  52. leave this disabled.
  53. config CONFIG_FDFORMAT
  54. bool "fdformat"
  55. default n
  56. help
  57. fdformat is used to low-level format a floppy disk.
  58. config CONFIG_FDISK
  59. bool "fdisk"
  60. default n
  61. help
  62. The fdisk utility is used to divide hard disks into one or more
  63. logical disks, which are generally called partitions. This utility
  64. can be used to list and edit the set of partitions or BSD style
  65. 'disk slices' that are defined on a hard drive.
  66. config FDISK_SUPPORT_LARGE_DISKS
  67. bool " support over 4GB disks"
  68. default y
  69. depends on CONFIG_FDISK
  70. help
  71. Enable this option to support large disks > 4GB.
  72. config CONFIG_FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
  73. bool " Write support"
  74. default y
  75. depends on CONFIG_FDISK
  76. help
  77. Enabling this option allows you to create or change a partition table
  78. and write those changes out to disk. If you leave this option
  79. disabled, you will only be able to view the partition table.
  80. config CONFIG_FEATURE_AIX_LABEL
  81. bool " Support AIX disklabels"
  82. default n
  83. depends on CONFIG_FDISK && CONFIG_FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
  84. help
  85. Enabling this option allows you to create or change AIX disklabels.
  86. Most people can safely leave this option disabled.
  87. config CONFIG_FEATURE_SGI_LABEL
  88. bool " Support SGI disklabels"
  89. default n
  90. depends on CONFIG_FDISK && CONFIG_FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
  91. help
  92. Enabling this option allows you to create or change SGI disklabels.
  93. Most people can safely leave this option disabled.
  94. config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUN_LABEL
  95. bool " Support SUN disklabels"
  96. default n
  97. depends on CONFIG_FDISK && CONFIG_FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
  98. help
  99. Enabling this option allows you to create or change SUN disklabels.
  100. Most people can safely leave this option disabled.
  101. config CONFIG_FEATURE_OSF_LABEL
  102. bool " Support BSD disklabels"
  103. default n
  104. depends on CONFIG_FDISK && CONFIG_FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
  105. help
  106. Enabling this option allows you to create or change BSD disklabels
  107. and define and edit BSD disk slices.
  108. config CONFIG_FEATURE_FDISK_ADVANCED
  109. bool " Support expert mode"
  110. default n
  111. depends on CONFIG_FDISK && CONFIG_FEATURE_FDISK_WRITABLE
  112. help
  113. Enabling this option allows you to do terribly unsafe things like
  114. define arbitrary drive geometry, move the beginning of data in a
  115. partition, and similarly evil things. Unless you have a very good
  116. reason you would be wise to leave this disabled.
  117. config CONFIG_FREERAMDISK
  118. bool "freeramdisk"
  119. default n
  120. help
  121. Linux allows you to create ramdisks. This utility allows you to
  122. delete them and completely free all memory that was used for the
  123. ramdisk. For example, if you boot Linux into a ramdisk and later
  124. pivot_root, you may want to free the memory that is allocated to the
  125. ramdisk. If you have no use for freeing memory from a ramdisk, leave
  126. this disabled.
  127. config CONFIG_FSCK_MINIX
  128. bool "fsck_minix"
  129. default n
  130. help
  131. The minix filesystem is a nice, small, compact, read-write filesystem
  132. with little overhead. It is not a journaling filesystem however and
  133. can experience corruption if it is not properly unmounted or if the
  134. power goes off in the middle of a write. This utility allows you to
  135. check for and attempt to repair any corruption that occurs to a minix
  136. filesystem.
  137. config CONFIG_MKFS_MINIX
  138. bool "mkfs_minix"
  139. default n
  140. help
  141. The minix filesystem is a nice, small, compact, read-write filesystem
  142. with little overhead. If you wish to be able to create minix filesystems
  143. this utility will do the job for you.
  144. comment "Minix filesystem support"
  145. depends on CONFIG_FSCK_MINIX || CONFIG_MKFS_MINIX
  146. config CONFIG_FEATURE_MINIX2
  147. bool " Support Minix fs v2 (fsck_minix/mkfs_minix)"
  148. default y
  149. depends on CONFIG_FSCK_MINIX || CONFIG_MKFS_MINIX
  150. help
  151. If you wish to be able to create version 2 minix filesystems, enable this.
  152. If you enabled 'mkfs_minix' then you almost certainly want to be using the
  153. version 2 filesystem support.
  154. config CONFIG_GETOPT
  155. bool "getopt"
  156. default n
  157. help
  158. The getopt utility is used to break up (parse) options in command
  159. lines to make it easy to write complex shell scripts that also check
  160. for legal (and illegal) options. If you want to write horribly
  161. complex shell scripts, or use some horribly complex shell script
  162. written by others, this utility may be for you. Most people will
  163. wisely leave this disabled.
  164. config CONFIG_HEXDUMP
  165. bool "hexdump"
  166. default n
  167. help
  168. The hexdump utility is used to display binary data in a readable
  169. way that is comparable to the output from most hex editors.
  170. config CONFIG_HWCLOCK
  171. bool "hwclock"
  172. default n
  173. help
  174. The hwclock utility is used to read and set the hardware clock
  175. on a system. This is primarily used to set the current time on
  176. shutdown in the hardware clock, so the hardware will keep the
  177. correct time when Linux is _not_ running.
  178. config CONFIG_FEATURE_HWCLOCK_LONGOPTIONS
  179. bool " Support long options (--hctosys,...)"
  180. default n
  181. depends on CONFIG_HWCLOCK
  182. help
  183. By default, the hwclock utility only uses short options. If you
  184. are overly fond of its long options, such as --hctosys, --utc, etc)
  185. then enable this option.
  186. config CONFIG_LOSETUP
  187. bool "losetup"
  188. default n
  189. help
  190. losetup is used to associate or detach a loop device with a regular
  191. file or block device, and to query the status of a loop device. This
  192. version does not currently support enabling data encryption.
  193. config CONFIG_IPCRM
  194. bool "ipcrm"
  195. default n
  196. select CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
  197. help
  198. The ipcrm utility allows the removal of System V interprocess
  199. communication (IPC) objects and the associated data structures
  200. from the system.
  201. config CONFIG_IPCS
  202. bool "ipcs"
  203. default n
  204. select CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
  205. help
  206. The ipcs utility is used to provide information on the currently
  207. allocated System V interprocess (IPC) objects in the system.
  208. config CONFIG_MKSWAP
  209. bool "mkswap"
  210. default n
  211. help
  212. The mkswap utility is used to configure a file or disk partition as
  213. Linux swap space. This allows Linux to use the entire file or
  214. partition as if it were additional RAM, which can greatly increase
  215. the capability of low-memory machines. This additional memory is
  216. much slower than real RAM, but can be very helpful at preventing your
  217. applications being killed by the Linux out of memory (OOM) killer.
  218. Once you have created swap space using 'mkswap' you need to enable
  219. the swap space using the 'swapon' utility.
  220. config CONFIG_MORE
  221. bool "more"
  222. default n
  223. help
  224. more is a simple utility which allows you to read text one screen
  225. sized page at a time. If you want to read text that is larger than
  226. the screen, and you are using anything faster than a 300 baud modem,
  227. you will probably find this utility very helpful. If you don't have
  228. any need to reading text files, you can leave this disabled.
  229. config CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS
  230. bool " Use termios to manipulate the screen"
  231. default y
  232. depends on CONFIG_MORE
  233. help
  234. This option allows utilities such as 'more' and 'top' to determine
  235. the size of the screen. If you leave this disabled, your utilities
  236. that display things on the screen will be especially primitive and
  237. will be unable to determine the current screen size, and will be
  238. unable to move the cursor.
  239. config CONFIG_PIVOT_ROOT
  240. bool "pivot_root"
  241. default n
  242. help
  243. The pivot_root utility swaps the mount points for the root filesystem
  244. with some other mounted filesystem. This allows you to do all sorts
  245. of wild and crazy things with your Linux system and is far more
  246. powerful than 'chroot'.
  247. config CONFIG_RDATE
  248. bool "rdate"
  249. default n
  250. help
  251. The rdate utility allows you to synchronize the date and time of your
  252. system clock with the date and time of a remote networked system using
  253. the RFC868 protocol, which is built into the inetd daemon on most
  254. systems.
  255. config CONFIG_SWAPONOFF
  256. bool "swaponoff"
  257. default n
  258. help
  259. This option enables both the 'swapon' and the 'swapoff' utilities.
  260. Once you have created some swap space using 'mkswap', you also need
  261. to enable your swap space with the 'swapon' utility. The 'swapoff'
  262. utility is used, typically at system shutdown, to disable any swap
  263. space. If you are not using any swap space, you can leave this
  264. option disabled.
  265. config CONFIG_MOUNT
  266. bool "mount"
  267. default n
  268. help
  269. All files and filesystems in Unix are arranged into one big directory
  270. tree. The 'mount' utility is used to graft a filesystem onto a
  271. particular part of the tree. A filesystem can either live on a block
  272. device, or it can be accessible over the network, as is the case with
  273. NFS filesystems. Most people using BusyBox will also want to enable
  274. the 'mount' utility.
  275. config CONFIG_NFSMOUNT
  276. bool " Support mounting NFS file systems"
  277. default n
  278. depends on CONFIG_MOUNT
  279. help
  280. Enable mounting of NFS file systems.
  281. config CONFIG_UMOUNT
  282. bool "umount"
  283. default n
  284. help
  285. When you want to remove a mounted filesystem from its current mount point,
  286. for example when you are shutting down the system, the 'umount' utility is
  287. the tool to use. If you enabled the 'mount' utility, you almost certainly
  288. also want to enable 'umount'.
  289. config CONFIG_FEATURE_MOUNT_FORCE
  290. bool " Support forced filesystem unmounting"
  291. default n
  292. depends on CONFIG_UMOUNT
  293. help
  294. This allows you to _force_ a filesystem to be umounted. This is generally
  295. only useful when you want to get rid of an unreachable NFS system.
  296. comment "Common options for mount/umount"
  297. depends on CONFIG_MOUNT || CONFIG_UMOUNT
  298. config CONFIG_FEATURE_MOUNT_LOOP
  299. bool " Support for loop devices"
  300. default n
  301. depends on CONFIG_MOUNT || CONFIG_UMOUNT
  302. help
  303. Enabling this feature allows automatic loopback mounts, meaning you can mount
  304. filesystems contained in normal files as well as in block devices. The mount
  305. and umount commands will detect you are trying to mount a file instead of a
  306. block device, and transparently associate it with a loopback device (and free
  307. the loopback device on unmount) for you.
  308. You can still use the 'losetup' utility and mount the loopback device yourself
  309. if you need to do something advanced, such as specify an offset or cryptographic
  310. options to the loopback device.
  311. config CONFIG_FEATURE_MTAB_SUPPORT
  312. bool " Support for a /etc/mtab file (instead of symlink to /proc/mounts)"
  313. default n
  314. depends on CONFIG_MOUNT || CONFIG_UMOUNT
  315. help
  316. If your root filesystem is writable and you wish to have the 'mount'
  317. utility create an mtab file listing the filesystems which have been
  318. mounted then you should enable this option. Most people that use
  319. BusyBox have a read-only root filesystem, so they will leave this
  320. option disabled and BusyBox will use the /proc/mounts file.
  321. Note that even non-embedded developers probably want to have /etc/mtab
  322. be a symlink to /proc/mounts, since otherwise mtab can get out of sync
  323. with the real kernel mount state in numerous ways.
  324. config CONFIG_READPROFILE
  325. bool "readprofile"
  326. default n
  327. help
  328. This allows you to parse /proc/profile for basic profiling.
  329. endmenu