Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754518AbXIONBO (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:01:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751252AbXIONA6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:00:58 -0400 Received: from tag.witbe.net ([81.88.96.48]:54834 "EHLO tag.witbe.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750935AbXIONA5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:00:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:00:10 +0000 From: Paul Rolland To: Stefan Richter Cc: Adrian Bunk , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , James Bottomley , Folkert van Heusden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, rol@witbe.net Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig Message-ID: <20070915130010.4272403c@tux.DEF.witbe.net> In-Reply-To: <46EB9703.70705@s5r6.in-berlin.de> References: <20070907124800.GP16806@vanheusden.com> <1189371621.3526.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070909210329.GE25798@one.firstfloor.org> <46E46190.6080607@garzik.org> <20070912224655.GC3563@stusta.de> <46EAA08F.30703@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070914151522.GL3563@stusta.de> <20070915080448.37457dcf@tux.DEF.witbe.net> <46EB9703.70705@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Organization: AS2917.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1337 Lines: 31 Hello Stefan, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:25:39 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote: > Paul Rolland wrote: > > getting too much of "No help text available" > > usually results in people no more reading the help text. > > I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_ > help text is a bug. Here is an example from 2.6.34-rc6 : .config - Linux Kernel v2.6.23-rc6 Configuration ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +------------------------- Provide RTC interrupt -------------------------+ | There is no help available for this kernel option. | | Symbol: HPET_EMULATE_RTC [=y] | | Prompt: Provide RTC interrupt | | Defined at arch/x86_64/Kconfig:471 | | Depends on: HPET_TIMER && RTC=y | | Location: | | -> Processor type and features | Regards, Paul - 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/