Re: why don't top-level menu entries have help info?

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

Added Roman Zippel to cc - he is kconfig maintainer,

	Sam

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:54:13PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i'd be surprised if this hasn't come up before, but would it be hard
> to add a facility to Kconfig so that "menu" entries have some help
> info?
> 
>   after i run "make menuconfig" and i'm sitting at the main menu,
> there's nothing to help me out in understanding what any of those
> choices might mean.
> 
>   i might see "Instrumentation Support" and wonder just what that is,
> but if i ask for help (which is, as you can see, clearly available
> at the bottom of the config screen), i get nothing meaningful, just
> the generic README.
> 
>   i think it would be helpful if those entries also supported help
> info.  just my $0.02.
> 
> rday
> 
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