linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix file references in Kconfig files

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Message-ID: <4E943980.8040807@suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:41:36 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Johann Felix Soden <johfel@....de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix file references in Kconfig files

On 11.10.2011 10:01, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 01:10 +0200, Johann Felix Soden wrote:
>> This patch fixes file references to moved or deleted files
>> outside of Documentation/.
> 
> Apparently you grepped on something like "<file:.*". This triggers an
> issue I've been wondering about a bit.
> 
> Would anyone know why some file references are wrapped in a "<file:" -
> ">" pair while others are not? The same thing can be seen with "http://"
> links: some are wrapped in angle brackets while others are not. What do
> these brackets (and the "file:" prefix) actually provide?

I guess the plan was to display these references as clickable links in
the graphical front-ends, but this has never been implemented.

Michal
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