From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: tilman@imap.cc, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 06:37:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070514043714.GA7614@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070513.162059.78710763.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:20:59PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 20:19:09 +0200
>
> > Would it be asking too much to have help texts on the following
> > new (wrt 2.6.21) configuration options?
> >
> > ESP Scsi Driver Core (SCSI_ESP_CORE) [N/m] (NEW)
>
> This one is a case where the option makes no sense by itself,
> it provides the core common code for other front-end drivers.
>
> The documentation exists in those front end drivers, which
> in turn auto-matically select and enable this config option.
>
> It would be nice if there was a Kconfig way to not provide
> this thing at all unless one of the front-ends got selected
> but on the otherhand I like how anyone can select it and thus
> test the build of it :-)
The above is almost the help entry seeked for this option.
For some this is maybe given from the option name,
but for other the above info is a help.
So either provide help or do not have the option visible.
I would prefer the first.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-14 4:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-13 3:20 Linus Torvalds
2007-05-13 9:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-17 6:55 ` Len Brown
2007-05-13 9:29 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1, 'nother randconfig Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH] driver core: fix warning of temporarily unused multithreaded probing function (was: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1) Borislav Petkov
2007-05-14 8:06 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-05-13 12:44 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1 Alessandro Suardi
2007-05-13 12:44 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-05-13 17:10 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-13 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-13 18:50 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-14 6:10 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 8:34 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-14 12:14 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 13:28 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-14 15:21 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 16:04 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-14 16:23 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-05-14 18:08 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 18:25 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-14 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-14 18:24 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-14 19:28 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 19:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-14 20:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-14 20:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-14 20:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-15 20:31 ` CONFIG_BREAK_MY_MACHINE was " Pavel Machek
2007-05-16 18:11 ` CONFIG_BREAK_MY_MACHINE Jean Delvare
2007-05-17 8:32 ` CONFIG_BREAK_MY_MACHINE Hans de Goede
2007-05-17 8:47 ` CONFIG_BREAK_MY_MACHINE Pavel Machek
2007-05-13 18:19 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1 Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-13 23:20 ` David Miller
2007-05-13 23:32 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-13 23:57 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-14 4:37 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-05-14 4:53 ` David Miller
2007-05-14 6:21 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-14 17:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 17:32 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 20:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 18:01 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-14 20:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 21:40 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-14 22:09 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 3:02 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 8:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 21:54 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 2:34 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 2:42 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 6:05 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 6:01 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 8:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-16 1:52 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-16 6:29 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-16 9:56 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 10:43 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-16 1:39 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-16 9:14 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-16 9:17 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 5:35 ` Michael Gerdau
2007-05-13 20:51 ` 2.6.22-rc1: loop.c Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-14 3:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-13 22:53 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1 Jeff Chua
2007-05-14 1:08 ` andrew hendry
2007-05-14 7:49 ` V4L Regression (Was: Linux 2.6.22-rc1) Robert Fitzsimons
2007-05-14 11:44 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1, 'nother randconfig David Howells
2007-05-14 17:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-15 9:26 ` David Howells
2007-05-15 9:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-15 4:14 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1 andrew hendry
2007-05-15 4:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-15 5:10 ` andrew hendry
2007-05-15 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-15 22:50 ` andrew hendry
2007-05-13 6:00 Jeff Chua
2007-05-13 6:13 ` Jeff Chua
2007-05-13 8:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
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