Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261555AbVEQOcO (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 10:32:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261553AbVEQOcO (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 10:32:14 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:40400 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261522AbVEQOcF (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 10:32:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:32:02 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Karel Kulhavy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ALSA make menuconfig Help description missing In-Reply-To: <200505171816.52233.adobriyan@gmail.com> References: <20050517123549.GA2378@kestrel> <200505171816.52233.adobriyan@gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 15) (Security Through Obscurity) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1693 Lines: 50 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 - 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/