Re: awful kconfig help texts.

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:47:42AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 07:42:49PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 01:26:38PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > Then shouldn't this not have a prompt and just be selected by those
> > > PWM drivers below?
> > 
> > It gives an empty menu due to the deps of the single PWM drivers.
> > 
> > But the whole CONFIG_PWM thing should simply depend on !X86 so that it
> > doesn't appear in drivers/.
> 
> I don't think that's a good idea. That would mean I would have to add
> !SPARC and !S390 and many other to that list as well. Also there are a
> couple of drivers that are in the process of being ported which are not
> restricted to ARM or embedded in general. So even if we make this !X86
> now, eventually it will pop up again.

Hmm, how about having a synthetic define CONFIG_ARCH_PWM and each arch
which has such a driver can select it and then CONFIG_PWM would depend
on that. Would that even work?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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