Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add check for too short Kconfig descriptions

[Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>]

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Am 2010-03-20 15:07 schrieb Andi Kleen:
> The warning merely is intended to get people to think
> about that. Yes it cannot enforce it directly.

Then change the wording, at least. With the current wording, people will
think, "But I did!", and complain about a false positive on LKML, where
they will be annoyed to learn that checkpatch.pl's criterion for
"describing fully" is "having at least four lines".

But even with a better wording, I think the warning will still do more
harm than good.

> Yes it's not a perfect measure and can be circumvented. But hopefully
> most users would not.

I'm not thinking of circumvention, but of well-meaning authors writing
long explanations that describe everything the author found worth
mentioning, but still don't answer the essential question: "Should I
select that option?" In fact, most of the unhelpful Kconfig help texts
I've encountered where longer than four lines. :-)

Thanks,
Tilman
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