Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754820AbXEGTyp (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 15:54:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754757AbXEGTyo (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 15:54:44 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:35705 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754753AbXEGTyn (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 15:54:43 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.196 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 15:54:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: why don't top-level menu entries have help info? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1163 Lines: 32 i'd be surprised if this hasn't come up before, but would it be hard to add a facility to Kconfig so that "menu" entries have some help info? after i run "make menuconfig" and i'm sitting at the main menu, there's nothing to help me out in understanding what any of those choices might mean. i might see "Instrumentation Support" and wonder just what that is, but if i ask for help (which is, as you can see, clearly available at the bottom of the config screen), i get nothing meaningful, just the generic README. i think it would be helpful if those entries also supported help info. just my $0.02. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - 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/