linux-kernel - Re: unfamiliar notation

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Message-Id: <E1IUXwl-0001Kp-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:20:15 +0200
From:	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unfamiliar notation

In article <1189386541.7365.50.camel@...hyon.home> you wrote:
> What's the deal with the underscore and the parentheses surrounding the
> call to menu_get_help?

it is a macro from gettext, used to translate the string. Usually this
should only be used on string constants.

Gruss
Bernd
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