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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:08:15 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Organization: MandrakeSoft
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To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: elenstev@mesatop.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: List of recent (2.4.0 to 2.4.2-ac18) CONFIG options needing 
 Configure.help text.
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Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:03:19 -0700,
> Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
> >With the 2.4.0 kernel, there were 476 CONFIG options which had
> >no help entry in Configure.help.  With 2.4.2-ac18, this number is now 547,
> >which has been kept this low with 54 options getting Configure.help text.
> 
> If any of these CONFIG_ options are always derived (i.e. the user never
> sees them on a config menu) then please add the suffix _DERIVED to such
> options.  They still need to start with CONFIG_ to suit the kernel
> build dependency generator so we cannot change the start of the name.
> Appending _DERIVED will make it obvious that the options require no
> help text.

Yow.  That is very cumbersome.  Can't you just keep a list somewhere,
instead of making such options longer?

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