Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261834AbVDTXcx (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:32:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261840AbVDTXcx (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:32:53 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:26374 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261834AbVDTXcv (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:32:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:32:46 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jesper Juhl Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] rename "---help---" to "help" in Kconfig files Message-ID: <20050420233246.GT5489@stusta.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1273 Lines: 31 On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:06:11AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: >... > Why does it do this? : There are two reasons for doing this; > 1) Consistency. out of ~4000 help entries in 134 Kconfig files, 747 of > those entries use "---help---" as the keyword, the rest use just "help". > So the users of "---help---" are clearly a minority and by renaming them > we make things consistent. - I hate inconsistency. :-) > 2) By not using two different "keywords" I assume it will be posible to > speed up kbuilds handling of Kconfig files slightly. That goal is not > accomplished by this patch, but this patch is a prerequisite for making > that change later. >... I'd be surprised if the second reason had a measurable effect, but I like this patch for the first reason. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/