diff --git a/findutils/Config.in b/findutils/Config.in
index cac11f77b..e904587e4 100644
--- a/findutils/Config.in
+++ b/findutils/Config.in
@@ -16,28 +16,31 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_MTIME
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_FIND
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  Allow searching based on the modification time of
+	  files.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_PERM
 	bool "  Enable permissions matching (-perm) option"
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_FIND
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  Enable searching based on file permissions.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_TYPE
 	bool "  Enable filetype matching (-type) option"
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_FIND
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  Enable searching based on file type (file,
+	  directory, socket, device, etc.).
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_XDEV
 	bool "  Enable stay in filesystem (-xdev) option"
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_FIND
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  This option will restrict find to a single
+	  filesystem.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_NEWER
 	bool "  Enable -newer option for comparing file mtimes"
@@ -65,7 +68,9 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_GREP
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  Enabled support for extended regular expressions.  Extended
+	  regular expressions allow for alternation (foo|bar), grouping,
+	  and various repetition operators.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_FGREP_ALIAS
 	bool "  Alias fgrep to grep -f"
@@ -81,7 +86,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_CONTEXT
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_GREP
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  Enable match context in results.  This will display a number
+	  of lines preceding and/or trailing matches.
 
 config CONFIG_XARGS
 	bool "xargs"
diff --git a/init/Config.in b/init/Config.in
index 0316399e6..d56cd5540 100644
--- a/init/Config.in
+++ b/init/Config.in
@@ -30,14 +30,18 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_INIT
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  If this option is enabled and the file /.init_enable_core
+	  exists, then init will call setrlimit() to allow unlimited
+	  core file sizes.  If this option is disabled, processes
+	  will not generate any core files.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET
 	bool "  Should init be _extra_ quiet on boot?"
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_INIT
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  Prevent init from logging some messages to the console
+	  during boot.
 
 # Some apps that are meaningless without BusyBox running as init
 config CONFIG_HALT
@@ -45,27 +49,30 @@ config CONFIG_HALT
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_INIT
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  Stop all processes.
 
 config CONFIG_POWEROFF
 	bool "poweroff"
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_INIT
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  Stop all processes and (try to) power off the system.
 
 config CONFIG_REBOOT
 	bool "reboot"
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_INIT
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  Stop all processes and reboot the system.
 
 config CONFIG_MINIT
 	bool "minit"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Minimal init, based on minit v0.9.1
+	  Minimal init, based on minit v0.9.1.  This is a simple
+	  init replacement that handles starting/stopping services,
+	  and service dependencies.  See http://www.fefe.de/minit/
+	  for additional information.
 
 config CONFIG_PIDFILEHACK
 	bool "pidfilehack"
@@ -86,13 +93,17 @@ config CONFIG_START_STOP_DAEMON
 	bool "start-stop-daemon"
 	default y
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  start-stop-daemon is used to control the creation and
+	  termination of system-level processes, usually the ones
+	  started during the startup of the system.
 
 config CONFIG_MESG
 	bool "mesg"
 	default y
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  Mesg  controls  the  access to your terminal by others.  It
+	  is typically used to allow or disallow other users to write
+	  to your  terminal
 
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