Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Warn if help text is blank

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 20:33 +0100, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> I agree that this shouldn't go in until/unless a significant portion
> of those empty help texts get removed first.

Not a significant portion, but all, I'd say.

> The patchset that removes the empty help texts is at
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/30/574. I could make another one if you'd
> prefer that.

I'm fine with anything that doesn't add warnings just to appease pet peeves.

> I haven't even checked how they are rendered to be honest. I was more
> concerned with the Kconfig mess.

Well, if you could make empty help texts disappear somehow (either during the
Kconfig parse phase - which requires a jump into the yacc horror - or during
the rendering phase) that would be much better than adding a warning for
something that you yourself described as a pet peeve.

And after that's done you're free to send cleanup patches for this whenever
you feel like doing so.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle