From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>,
CML2 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:40:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010621234002.Z18978@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010621154934.A6582@thyrsus.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106211812560.30096-100000@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106211812560.30096-100000@xanadu.home>; from nico@cam.org on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:22:22PM -0400
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:22:22PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > The following configuration symbols in 2.4.6pre5 do not have
> > Congfgure.help entries,:
> [...]
> > 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.
>
> 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?
Eric - would it be easier if I just define_bool CONFIG_XSCALE_IQ80310 n ?
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2001-06-21 19:49 ` Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5 Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-21 19:55 ` Russell King
2001-06-21 20:03 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 8:13 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 13:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 13:47 ` Russell King
2001-06-22 13:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 13:54 ` Russell King
2001-06-22 14:28 ` Brent D. Norris
2001-06-22 14:00 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-06-22 14:13 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-24 0:05 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 15:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-22 16:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 13:56 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 14:24 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 14:54 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 16:27 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 17:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-21 22:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-21 22:40 ` Russell King [this message]
2001-06-21 22:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 8:24 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 13:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 2:15 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 14:47 Holzrichter, Bruce
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