Re: awful kconfig help texts.

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Wed Aug 01 2012 - 05:28:10 EST



On Wednesday 2012-08-01 09:43, Thierry Reding wrote:
>> >
>> > PWM Support (PWM) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
>> >
>> > CONFIG_PWM:
>> > This enables PWM support through the generic PWM framework.
>>
>> 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? :-)
>> Thierry, can you guys please fix this?
>
>Hehe, those aren't very descriptive, that's true. I was going to go over
>the documentation anyway, so I'll make a note to revise the Kconfig help
>texts as well.

Also, instead of
bool "PWM Support"
this should be
menuconfig "PWM support"

so that you can disable the whole submenu at once.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/