linux-kernel - Re: awful kconfig help texts.

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1208011127270.31519@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
Date:	Wed, 1 Aug 2012 11:28:14 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: awful kconfig help texts.


On Wednesday 2012-08-01 09:43, Thierry Reding wrote:
>> > 
>> > PWM Support (PWM) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
>> > 
>> > CONFIG_PWM:
>> > This enables PWM support through the generic PWM framework.
>> 
>> Oh, there's one more enlightening sentence in the help:
>> 
>> "You only need to enable this, if you also want to enable one or more of
>> the PWM drivers below."
>> 
>> Got it? :-)
>> Thierry, can you guys please fix this?
>
>Hehe, those aren't very descriptive, that's true. I was going to go over
>the documentation anyway, so I'll make a note to revise the Kconfig help
>texts as well.

Also, instead of
	bool "PWM Support"
this should be
	menuconfig "PWM support"

so that you can disable the whole submenu at once.
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