From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Subject: Re: awful kconfig help texts.
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:07:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120731170741.GA4735@x1.osrc.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120731151600.GA19412@redhat.com>
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:16:00AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> PWM Support (PWM) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
>
> CONFIG_PWM:
>
> This enables PWM support through the generic PWM framework.
>
>
> Well that's.. enlightening.
Oh, there's one more enlightening sentence in the help:
"You only need to enable this, if you also want to enable one or more of
the PWM drivers below."
Got it? :-)
> I'm picking on PWM here, but this isn't an
> isolated case. Every merge window we see a slew of new options with useless
> help texts. They may as well be non-existent. (Actually in some cases, they are).
>
> If someone has to read the code to find out what the driver is, your help text probably sucks.
>
>
> (I'll leave "why does this option even show up on x86" as a separate rant)
Thierry, can you guys please fix this?
Thanks.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-31 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-31 15:16 awful kconfig help texts Dave Jones
2012-07-31 17:07 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-07-31 17:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-31 17:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-01 7:47 ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-01 8:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-01 9:21 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-08-01 9:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-01 9:38 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-08-01 10:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-01 10:56 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-08-01 12:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-08-01 13:18 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-08-07 18:25 ` Mark Brown
2012-07-31 18:43 ` Dave Jones
2012-07-31 22:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-01 7:43 ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-01 9:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-08-16 9:54 ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-16 11:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-16 12:05 ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-17 6:11 ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-17 7:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-17 7:19 ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-20 2:34 ` Cam Hutchison
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