2.5: Help for choice questions doesn't work

2.5: Help for choice questions doesn't work

[Adrian Bunk]

In 2.5.47 the help for choice questions (e.g. "Processor family" or
"High Memory Support" in the "Processor type and features" menu) doesn't
work in "make menuconfig", there's always a "There is no help available
for this kernel option." displayed.

cu
Adrian

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Re: 2.5: Help for choice questions doesn't work

[Brian Jackson]

I noticed that too. It works on the top level choice(before you get into the 
selections). I was just thinking about suggesting to Roman that we could 
either show the same help all the way down in those multiple choice cases, 
or provide a link back up to the main help. Where it would actually show the 
text, but wouldn't repeat the same text 15 times(once for each choice). That 
functionality could probably come in handy in other cases too. I just don't 
know how hard that would be to implement. 

 --Brian Jackson 

Adrian Bunk writes: 

> In 2.5.47 the help for choice questions (e.g. "Processor family" or
> "High Memory Support" in the "Processor type and features" menu) doesn't
> work in "make menuconfig", there's always a "There is no help available
> for this kernel option." displayed. 
> 
> cu
> Adrian 
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Re: 2.5: Help for choice questions doesn't work

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> In 2.5.47 the help for choice questions (e.g. "Processor family" or
> "High Memory Support" in the "Processor type and features" menu) doesn't
> work in "make menuconfig", there's always a "There is no help available
> for this kernel option." displayed.

Move the main help to the choice entry itself. All front ends expect the 
help now there. E.g.

choice
	prompt "Processor family"
	default M686
        ---help---
	  This is the processor type of your CPU. This information is used for
	  optimizing purposes. In order to compile a kernel that can run on
	  all x86 CPU types (albeit not optimally fast), you can specify
	  "386" here.
	  ...

The choice options can still have there own help entries, but only xconfig 
makes use of it.
I didn't do this automatically, since most help text entries need to be 
splitted somehow. I wanted to do this for a few common entries, but I 
haven't found the time yet.

bye, Roman