From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261864AbVDERuQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:50:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261857AbVDERtb (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:49:31 -0400 Received: from smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.35]:31395 "HELO smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261855AbVDERbv (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:31:51 -0400 From: Blaisorblade To: Roman Zippel Subject: Re: Bug with multiple help messages, the last one is shown Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:36:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, LKML References: <200503221832.41883.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504051936.12461.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sorry for the late answer, Yahoo put your mail in its Spam folder, and I didn't check until now. On Tuesday 22 March 2005 21:00, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Blaisorblade wrote: > > I've verified multiple times that if we have a situation like this > > > > bool A > > depends on TRUE > > help > > Bla bla1 > > > > and > > > > bool A > > depends on FALSE > > help > > Bla bla2 > > > > even if the first option is the displayed one, the help text used is the > > one for the second option (the absence of "prompt" is not relevant here)! > > Is this based on a real problem? Yes, look at the multiple help texts in lib/Kconfig.debug in vanilla 2.6.11, or, in the current bk tree, in lib/Kconfig.debug and arch/um/Kconfig for MAGIC_SYSRQ. For UML we need different help texts, so I'd like this solved. If you definitely don't want to fix this, we can use the old 2.4 trick of having CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ2, for instance, with the right help and defining MAGIC_SYSRQ as equal to MAGIC_SYSRQ2. > I know that there's currently one help > text per symbol > and the behaviour for multiple help texts is basically > undefined. Yes, it's what I saw (actually I guess and seem to have verified that the last read text is used). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade