Hello Stefan, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:25:39 +0200 Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote: > Paul Rolland wrote: > > getting too much of "No help text available" > > usually results in people no more reading the help text. > > I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_ > help text is a bug. Here is an example from 2.6.34-rc6 : .config - Linux Kernel v2.6.23-rc6 Configuration ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +------------------------- Provide RTC interrupt -------------------------+ | There is no help available for this kernel option. | | Symbol: HPET_EMULATE_RTC [=y] | | Prompt: Provide RTC interrupt | | Defined at arch/x86_64/Kconfig:471 | | Depends on: HPET_TIMER && RTC=y | | Location: | | -> Processor type and features | Regards, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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