From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755642Ab2HNTIy (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:08:54 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:39698 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751524Ab2HNTIw (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:08:52 -0400 Message-ID: <502AA240.8050403@googlemail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:08:48 +0200 From: Stefan Beller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: miss-leading help in configuration options Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I was configuring a kernel build and stumbled across some options, which default to [n], but the help says "If unsure, say Y". Also the other way round defaulting to [y], but the help saying "If unsure, say N". So now I am really unsure, what to pick. Here is a list of options, which I found with a script to have such unsure help: ./arch/blackfin/Kconfig.debug config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT ./arch/sh/mm/Kconfig config SCHED_MC ./arch/sparc/Kconfig config SCHED_SMT config SERIAL_CONSOLE ./arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu config CPU_SUP_AMD config CPU_SUP_CENTAUR config CPU_SUP_CYRIX_32 config CPU_SUP_INTEL config CPU_SUP_TRANSMETA_32 config CPU_SUP_UMC_32 ./drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig config TOUCHSCREEN_DA9034 config TOUCHSCREEN_USB_EASYTOUCH ./drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig config STMMAC_PLATFORM ./fs/ext3/Kconfig config EXT3_FS_XATTR ./fs/ext4/Kconfig config EXT4_FS_XATTR ./fs/notify/fanotify/Kconfig config FANOTIFY ./lib/Kconfig.debug config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE ./mm/Kconfig config CLEANCACHE config FRONTSWAP ./net/ipv4/Kconfig config INET_UDP_DIAG ./net/Kconfig config BRIDGE_NETFILTER ./net/unix/Kconfig config UNIX_DIAG