From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755092Ab2GaPQH (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:16:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45845 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754967Ab2GaPQE (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:16:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:16:00 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Linux Kernel Subject: awful kconfig help texts. Message-ID: <20120731151600.GA19412@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org PWM Support (PWM) [N/y/?] (NEW) ? CONFIG_PWM: This enables PWM support through the generic PWM framework. Well that's.. enlightening. 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) Dave