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 18:40:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:40:48 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:64018 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:40:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:40:02 +0100 From: Russell King To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5 Message-ID: <20010621234002.Z18978@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> 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 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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