From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:14:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:14:04 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:16902 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:13:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:15:51 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5 Message-ID: <20010621221551.A9839@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Nicolas Pitre , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010621154934.A6582@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nico@cam.org on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:22:22PM -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicolas Pitre : > > CONFIG_XSCALE_IQ80310 > > 1- This symbol is mine; > 2- It is part of 2.4.6-pre5 only as a dependency argument, with no > point where a value is actually assigned to it; > 3- It is likely to be different when the actual question for which the > user need an help text is merged into the mainline kernel. > > So you can safely ignore it for now. I've put it on my ignore list. > Maybe it could be a good thing for your tool to ignore missing help text for > symbols that don't get enabled interactively by the user? It already does that for derivations (in CML1, define_*). The real problem here is that my report generators aren't smart enough to tell when a CML1 symbol is referenced in a CML1 config but never set. That problem could be solved, but it's unusual that I don't think it's worth the effort. -- Eric S. Raymond The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1823