linux-kernel - Re: why don't top-level menu entries have help info?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0705081044090.17280@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Tue, 8 May 2007 10:50:07 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: why don't top-level menu entries have help info?


>On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:54:13PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> 
>>   i'd be surprised if this hasn't come up before, but would it be hard
>> to add a facility to Kconfig so that "menu" entries have some help
>> info?

Currently, you have to (needlessy) enter the MD menu for example and
*in there* read the help text of CONFIG_MD, then decide if you want
it or not. I hope my use-menuconfig-objects patches help this issue
a bit ... not only avoiding to enter it, but also making the help
text available in the upper level. Take CONFIG_EMBEDDED, it DTRTs.

I do not think it will be too helpful to have help texts on menu, for
the "important" Kconfig objects (config, choice, menuconfig) should
have it - and they have it.

>>   after i run "make menuconfig" and i'm sitting at the main menu,
>> there's nothing to help me out in understanding what any of those
>> choices might mean.
>> 
>>   i might see "Instrumentation Support" and wonder just what that is,
>> but if i ask for help (which is, as you can see, clearly available
>> at the bottom of the config screen), i get nothing meaningful, just
>> the generic README.
>> 
>>   i think it would be helpful if those entries also supported help
>> info.  just my $0.02.

Jan
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