On 14.08.2006 [09:59:06 -0700], Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 12:16 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > > You need to ask for help with the high-level option, not the actual
> > > "choice":
> >
> > The "high-level option" being ...?
>
> In menuconfig, at least:
>
> "Memory split (3G/1G user/kernel split) --->"
>
> Inside of "Processor type and features".
I think you missed the point. If you don't know that the "Memory Split"
submenu is hidden unless you enable EMBEDDED && EXPERIMENTAL and are
!X86_PAE (the latter was the problem here, until I applied your patch),
then this is not helpful. You'll do what I did, and search for VMSPLIT
in menuconfig and get the results I pasted in my first mail, which as I
said then are less than helpful.
> > What did you search for in menuconfig to get the following? And, in
> > any case, how is it useful to return a "(null)" symbol name?
>
> The trouble is that the help text is associated with the top-level
> "choice" Kconfig entry, not the _individual_ choices. There is no
> symbol associated with the top-level one. It might be useful to allow
> help text to be associated with individual "choice" entries, to
> display that text in the high-level option, and to replace the "null"
> symbol with something that says "this choice can select any of these
> symbols: FOO, BAR, etc..."
Right, I gathered as much...
> I'm sure the Kconfig folks take patches. :P
And that's what I had Roman and Sam on the Cc, as I wanted their input
if this was a worthwhile change.
Thanks,
Nish
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Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
IBM Linux Technology Center
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