linux-kernel - Re: unfamiliar notation

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Message-ID: <20070910014643.GA22800@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:46:43 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unfamiliar notation

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 03:20:15AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> 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.
Correct.
And only in kconfig since this is the only piece of code supporting gettext in the kernel.

	Sam
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