Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:49:17 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | 2.6.22-git* regression: Kconfig prompts without help text |
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It is an error to add visible Kconfig options without help text. Among them are the new "menuconfig" options. Jan obviously never uses "make oldconfig". Most of these options were added after 2.6.22:
BLK_DEV HID_SUPPORT INSTRUMENTATION MACINTOSH_DRIVERS MISC_DEVICES USB_SUPPORT
Here are suggestions for help texts. Please verify if they are correct and check whether there are more new (menuconfig) options without help texts.
BLK_DEV Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device drivers. This option alone does not add code to the kernel.
If you say N, options will be skipped and disabled. Hence say Y.
HID_SUPPORT Say Y here to get to see options for various computer--human interface device drivers. This option alone does not add code to the kernel.
If you say N, options will be skipped and disabled. Hence say Y.
INSTRUMENTATION Say Y here to get to see options related to performance measurement, debugging, and testing. This option alone does not add code to the kernel.
If you say N, options will be skipped and disabled.
MACINTOSH_DRIVERS Say Y here to get to see options for devices used with Macintosh computers, both PPC and Intel based. This option alone does not add code to the kernel.
If you say N, options will be skipped and disabled.
MISC_DEVICES Say Y here to get to see options for device drivers from various different categories. This option alone does not add code to the kernel.
If you say N, options will be skipped and disabled. Hence say Y.
USB_SUPPORT This option adds core support for Universal Serial Bus (USB). You will also need drivers from the following menu to make use of it.
PS:
I believe one possible *bug* of this menuconfig stuff is that if (1.) user X disables menuconfig A in linux-2.6.x because nothing interesting for him is in there, (2.) developer Y adds something very interesting in menu A in linux-2.6.x+1, --> (3.) user X will miss this new option when he runs "make oldconfig" when switching to linux-2.6.x+1 because everything between 'if A'...'endif # A' will be invisible and disabled. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=== =---- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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