Re: unfamiliar notation

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 03:20:15AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <1189386541.7365.50.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> > What's the deal with the underscore and the parentheses surrounding the
> > call to menu_get_help?
> 
> it is a macro from gettext, used to translate the string. Usually this
> should only be used on string constants.
Correct.
And only in kconfig since this is the only piece of code supporting gettext in the kernel.

	Sam
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