linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] edac x38: new MC driver module

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Date:	Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:39:42 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>, dougthompson@...ssion.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] edac x38: new MC driver module

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 07:11:01PM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> But there is problem.
> I wrote helps for HAVE_READQ and HAVE_WRITEQ in Kconfig file
> accodring to the advice by Russell King ( http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122701161824218&w=2 ),
> but these helps are invisible when I doing menuconfig.
> (when type '/' and search readq string, HAVE_READQ found, but
> help string is not printed...)

Yes, they will be, because users can't change the options.  The point
of providing a help text for them is so that when someone comes across
the options in a few months or years time, they know what the options
are (supposed to be) doing.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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