From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262358AbTFYGFS (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:05:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262623AbTFYGFS (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:05:18 -0400 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:55954 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262358AbTFYGFN (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:05:13 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Stewart Smith Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: remove --help-- and ---help--- entries from Kconfig files In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:06:11 +1000." <20030624110611.GC8052@cancer> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:10:37 +1000 Message-Id: <20030625061924.31AA42C250@lists.samba.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.