> This patch attempts to speed up the access of config help used by all the
> configure scripts. Menuconfig, xconfig, config, and oldconfig now all
> call the external help script. Documentation/Configure.help is split into
> individual Documentation/config/<var> files, one for each CONFIG_*.
>
> When(if) this patch is accepted, the split routine will no longer be
> needed, and the scripts/help file will be greatly simplified. It really
> wouldn't be needed, as the configure scripts could just access the
> Documentation/config/* files directly.
I do not really like idea of Configure.help being split into _lots_ of
small files: linux kernel sources are big enough already. Really, I
think there would be some other way (like making 2 blank lines between
CONFIG_ options or something like that) to make patches fail less
likely.
Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).