Re: List of recent (2.4.0 to 2.4.2-ac18) CONFIG options needing Configure.help text.

[Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:08:15 -0500, 
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:03:19 -0700,
>> Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
>> >With the 2.4.0 kernel, there were 476 CONFIG options which had
>> >no help entry in Configure.help.  With 2.4.2-ac18, this number is now 547,
>> >which has been kept this low with 54 options getting Configure.help text.
>> 
>> If any of these CONFIG_ options are always derived (i.e. the user never
>> sees them on a config menu) then please add the suffix _DERIVED to such
>> options.  They still need to start with CONFIG_ to suit the kernel
>> build dependency generator so we cannot change the start of the name.
>> Appending _DERIVED will make it obvious that the options require no
>> help text.
>
>Yow.  That is very cumbersome.  Can't you just keep a list somewhere,
>instead of making such options longer?

Not if we want to automate it for new options.  Besides it makes a nice
distinction in the code between user selectable options and options
that config has worked out for itself.