From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Paul Rolland <rol@as2917.net>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
rol@witbe.net
Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:25:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EB9703.70705@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070915080448.37457dcf@tux.DEF.witbe.net>
Paul Rolland wrote:
> getting too much of "No help text available"
> usually results in people no more reading the help text.
I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_
help text is a bug.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-15 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 12:48 sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig Folkert van Heusden
2007-09-07 14:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-07 14:58 ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-09-07 19:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-07 23:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-08 7:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-07 15:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-07 15:59 ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-09-07 16:21 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-07 23:05 ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-09-08 7:05 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 7:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-08 7:56 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 16:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-08 16:44 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 16:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-08 19:45 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 8:43 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-13 8:50 ` Helge Hafting
2007-09-14 16:42 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2007-09-14 18:44 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 16:07 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-08 16:50 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-08 16:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-08 18:13 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-08 18:30 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 19:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-08 19:32 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-09 21:00 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-09 21:03 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-09 21:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-09 21:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-09 21:39 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-10 6:38 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-10 12:43 ` Rene Herman
2007-09-11 20:16 ` Bauke Jan Douma
2007-09-12 22:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 14:54 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 15:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 15:37 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 16:01 ` [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 16:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 18:02 ` [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 18:04 ` [PATCH] SCSI: trailing whitespace in Kconfig Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 19:00 ` [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-14 19:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 20:01 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 11:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 12:24 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 12:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 13:20 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 13:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 14:11 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 14:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 15:27 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 15:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-15 16:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 16:52 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-15 19:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-15 20:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-16 20:12 ` Greg KH
2007-09-15 16:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-17 11:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-09-17 14:46 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 20:20 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 21:22 ` [PATCH update] " Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 18:54 ` [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-14 20:14 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 20:21 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-14 21:06 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 21:11 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-14 21:14 ` [PATCH update] " Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 22:02 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-15 6:16 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 10:52 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-15 12:30 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 12:53 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-15 12:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 13:19 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 16:16 ` sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 16:50 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 8:04 ` Paul Rolland
2007-09-15 8:25 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-09-15 13:00 ` Paul Rolland
2007-09-15 15:50 ` x86_64 usability bug: Kconfig prompt without help text (was Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig) Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 16:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-15 17:13 ` [PATCH] x86_64: configure HPET_EMULATE_RTC automatically Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 18:23 ` sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig david
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2007-09-08 3:52 Al Boldi
2007-09-08 13:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-08 14:03 ` Al Boldi
2007-09-08 16:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-09 4:11 ` Al Boldi
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2007-09-08 16:52 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-09-08 18:22 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 18:54 ` Randy Dunlap
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