linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] s390: Kconfig: Fix indentation and add comments

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Date:   Fri, 20 May 2022 10:15:38 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@...onical.com>, hca@...ux.ibm.com,
        gor@...ux.ibm.com, agordeev@...ux.ibm.com,
        borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com, svens@...ux.ibm.com,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Juerg Haefliger <juergh@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] s390: Kconfig: Fix indentation and add comments

On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 13:57 +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> The convention for indentation seems to be a single tab. Help text is
> further indented by an additional two whitespaces. Fix the lines that
> violate these rules.
> 
> While add it, add trailing comments to endmenu statements for better
> readability.
[]
> diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
[]
> @@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ config RANDOMIZE_BASE
>  	  as a security feature that deters exploit attempts relying on
>  	  knowledge of the location of kernel internals.
>  
> -endmenu
> +endmenu # "Processor type and features"

An endmenu comment is relatively unusual.

$ git grep '^endmenu' -- '*/Kconfig*' | wc -l
394
$ git grep '^endmenu.*#' -- '*/Kconfig*' | wc -l
20

I believe it doesn't really help readability.