diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
index 8feb9048e62f..24d657b3ab99 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
@@ -22,11 +22,20 @@ config ANDROID_TIMED_GPIO
 	tristate "Android timed gpio driver"
 	depends on GPIOLIB && ANDROID_TIMED_OUTPUT
 	default n
+        ---help---
+	  Unlike generic gpio is to allow programs to access and manipulate gpio
+	  registers from user space, timed output/gpio is a system to allow changing
+	  a gpio pin and restore it automatically after a specified timeout.
 
 config ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER
 	bool "Android Low Memory Killer"
 	---help---
-	  Registers processes to be killed when memory is low
+	  Registers processes to be killed when low memory conditions, this is useful
+	  as there is no particular swap space on android.
+
+	  The registered process will kills according to the priorities in android init
+	  scripts (/init.rc), and it defines priority values with minimum free memory size
+	  for each priority.
 
 config SYNC
 	bool "Synchronization framework"