linux-kernel - Re: awful kconfig help texts.

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Message-ID: <20120817071931.GB6003@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de>
Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:19:32 +0200
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: awful kconfig help texts.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:00:42AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 08:11:02AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > How about the patch below?
> > 
> > Thierry
> 
> > From deb6852dc5e9da365a33c744f2dc107ae11b407a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:01:21 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH v2] pwm: Improve Kconfig help text
> > 
> > The Kconfig help text should help the user understand what functionality
> > is provided by an option. This is especially true for new subsystems. An
> > improved help text is provided by this commit in the hopes of clarifying
> > the usefulness of the PWM framework.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
> 
> Absolutely! Now even I understand it :-).
> 
> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>

Thanks, I'll queue this for 3.6-rc3.

Thierry

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