From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.org.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: remove --help-- and ---help--- entries from Kconfig files
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:10:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030625061924.31AA42C250@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:06:11 +1000." <20030624110611.GC8052@cancer>
In message <20030624110611.GC8052@cancer> you write:
> It seems that the dashes prefixing/suffixing a lot of the help
> entries in Kconfig files have little or no meaning (i couldn't
> find any docs, and didn't see any difference to help messages
> after this patch)
>
> This (rather long and reproducable by a command line < 100 chars)
> patch replaces all -*help-* entries with just help
IIRC they were explicitly added by Roman after people wanted more
visual delineation.
So I've not taken your patch, but you may want submit another that
adds this to the fine documentation in
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
Cheers,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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