Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:21:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:21:44 -0500 Received: from frege-d-math-north-g-west.math.ethz.ch ([129.132.145.3]:47604 "EHLO frege.math.ethz.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:21:35 -0500 Message-ID: <3C6A7657.9060708@debian.org> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:21:11 +0100 From: Giacomo Catenazzi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011226 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Benjamin Pharr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: choice Help Sections In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse wrote: > ben@benpharr.com said: > >>Has anyone else noticed the availability of only one help section in >>"choice" blocks when using make menuconfig (and others maybe?)? >> > >>The best example of this is selection of "Processor family". No matter >>which option is highlighted when Help is selected, it always gives the >>help for CONFIG_M386. >> > > AFAIK the help text for choice entries has _always_ been implemented the > way you observed - a single entry with the name of the first choice, which > helps you decide what to choose - not individual entries for each possible > choice. > > It looks like the current Configure.help is broken. I suggest you submit > patches to correct it. The other items are ready for CML2. One of the Configure.help maintainers is also the maintainer of CML2, so... giacomo - 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/