Re: awful kconfig help texts.

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:16:00AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> PWM Support (PWM) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
> 
> CONFIG_PWM:
> 
> This enables PWM support through the generic PWM framework.
> 
> 
> Well that's.. enlightening.

Oh, there's one more enlightening sentence in the help:

"You only need to enable this, if you also want to enable one or more of
the PWM drivers below."

Got it? :-)

> 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)

Thierry, can you guys please fix this?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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