Re: ALSA make menuconfig Help description missing

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 17 May 2005 18:16:51 +0400,
Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 17:49, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 17 May 2005 14:35:49 +0200,
> > Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> > > v2.6.11 make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> Sound -> Advanced Linux
> > > Sound Architecture and
> > > 
> > > v2.6.11 make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> Sound -> Advanced Linux
> > > Sound Architecture -> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
> > > 
> > > are missing their help descriptions:
> > > 
> > > "There is no help available for this kernel option."
> > > 
> > > Therefore the user is unable to determine how to use this subsystem
> > > at all.
> > 
> > Something like below fixes the problem?
> 
> > --- linux/sound/Kconfig
> > +++ linux/sound/Kconfig
> > @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
> >  config SND
> >  	tristate "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture"
> >  	depends on SOUND
> > +	help
> > +	  Say 'Y' or 'M' to enable ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
> 
> The only new info is that one can abbreviate "Advanced Linux Sound
> Architecture" as "ALSA". ;-)

Yeah, that's pretty important information.  Someone may think ALSA as
"Alpaca and Llama Show Association" or "Australian Las Students'
Association" :)

> "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture" is already printed. What 'Y' and 'M' do is
> also already printed at the top.

I just wanted to confirm that adding a help text would solve the
problem.  A better description is appreciated, of course.


Takashi