Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: List of recent (2.4.0 to 2.4.2-ac18) CONFIG options needing Configure.help text. | Date | Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:20:43 +1100 |
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:08:15 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote: >Keith Owens wrote: >> >> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:03:19 -0700, >> Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote: >> >With the 2.4.0 kernel, there were 476 CONFIG options which had >> >no help entry in Configure.help. With 2.4.2-ac18, this number is now 547, >> >which has been kept this low with 54 options getting Configure.help text. >> >> If any of these CONFIG_ options are always derived (i.e. the user never >> sees them on a config menu) then please add the suffix _DERIVED to such >> options. They still need to start with CONFIG_ to suit the kernel >> build dependency generator so we cannot change the start of the name. >> Appending _DERIVED will make it obvious that the options require no >> help text. > >Yow. That is very cumbersome. Can't you just keep a list somewhere, >instead of making such options longer?
Not if we want to automate it for new options. Besides it makes a nice distinction in the code between user selectable options and options that config has worked out for itself.
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