Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966591AbXEGU1Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:27:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966586AbXEGU1U (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:27:20 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:54733 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966576AbXEGU1T (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:27:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 22:28:13 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Roman Zippel Subject: Re: why don't top-level menu entries have help info? Message-ID: <20070507202813.GA20680@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1597 Lines: 42 Added Roman Zippel to cc - he is kconfig maintainer, Sam On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:54:13PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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/ - 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/