Configure.help has complete coverage for 2.4 and 2.5.

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:16:52 -0500


For only the second time in recorded history, the master
Configure.help file now has help entries corresponding to *all*
configuration symbols in live use in the kernel tree (both 2.4 and
2.5). It is available for your downloading pleasure at:

http://tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/Configure.help.gz

Fossil entries in this version have been garbage-collected out (I'm
keeping them in a dead-entries file in case any of them becomes
interesting again.) Entries for which the question symbol has merely
been commented out in CML1 have been retained.

I had to write over 600 of the entries in this version myself,
including the last six. Please don't put me through that again --
when you add a config option, *include a Configure.help entry in your
patch*. Not documenting how and why to configure your option is both
sloppy and antisocial. I beseech the current Elder Gods of the kernel
to reject future patches that neglect this step.

Thanks to everyone who responded well to my nagging by sending in entries.

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