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Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:55:52 -0700
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] auxdisplay: Make charlcd.[ch] more general
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 08:33:26AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-10-18 at 17:08 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 10:07 AM Lars Poeschel <poeschel@lemonage.de> wrote:
> []
> > > Oh by the way: Do you know what I can do to make checkpatch happy with
> > > its describing of the config symbol ? I tried writing a help paragraph
> > > for the config symbols in Kconfig, but that did not help.
> > 
> > CC'ing Joe.
> 
> add
> 	--ignore=CONFIG_DESCRIPTION
> or
> 	--min-conf-desc-length=1 (default is 4)
> 
> to the checkpatch command line, or just ignore it.
> 
> AK: I guess there's still some debate as to the proper
> minimum length of a Kconfig help section paragraph.

I still think four lines is a good minimum

If it's not worth writing 4 lines for, perhaps the Kconfig
symbol is not needed at all?

-Andi