[PATCH -rc] KVM: Fix virtualization menu help text

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From: Avi Kivity
Date: Monday, September 17, 2007 - 2:10 am

What guest drivers?

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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An August 18 patch from Jan Engelhardt (06bfb7e) added help text for the virtualization menu.
Unfortunately the text is misleading, as "guest drivers" are usually interpreted to
mean "drivers running inside the guest", which is not the case for kvm.

Linus, please apply.

 drivers/kvm/Kconfig |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/kvm/Kconfig b/drivers/kvm/Kconfig
index 9b72f33..8749fa4 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
 	depends on X86
 	default y
 	---help---
-	  Say Y here to get to see options for virtualization guest drivers.
+	  Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run other
+	  operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
 	  This option alone does not add any kernel code.
 
 	  If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
-- 
1.5.3

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[PATCH -rc] KVM: Fix virtualization menu help text, Avi Kivity, (Mon Sep 17, 2:10 am)
Re: [PATCH -rc] KVM: Fix virtualization menu help text, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Sep 17, 11:42 am)