Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:15:51 -0400


Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>:
> > CONFIG_XSCALE_IQ80310
>
> 1- This symbol is mine;
> 2- It is part of 2.4.6-pre5 only as a dependency argument, with no
> point where a value is actually assigned to it;
> 3- It is likely to be different when the actual question for which the
> user need an help text is merged into the mainline kernel.
>
> So you can safely ignore it for now.

I've put it on my ignore list.

> Maybe it could be a good thing for your tool to ignore missing help text for
> symbols that don't get enabled interactively by the user?

It already does that for derivations (in CML1, define_*). The real problem
here is that my report generators aren't smart enough to tell when a CML1
symbol is referenced in a CML1 config but never set. That problem could be
solved, but it's unusual that I don't think it's worth the effort.

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