Re: [trivial 2.5] kconfig language doc r.e. --help--

From: Stewart Smith (stewart@linux.org.au)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 06:25:34 EST


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:48:43PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Where did you find the '--help--' version? I'm actually suprised that
> works. The official alternative is only '---help---'.

I'd *swear* i saw '--help--' yesterday. I'd swear until i was a
light shade of blue....

Oh well, patch that only references "---help---" below.

--- linux-2.5.73/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt 2003-06-15 17:47:18.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.5.73-stew1/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt 2003-06-25 21:24:28.000000000 +1000
@@ -105,10 +105,13 @@
   or equal to the first symbol and smaller than or equal to the second
   symbol.
 
-- help text: "help"
+- help text: "help" or "---help---"
   This defines a help text. The end of the help text is determined by
   the indentation level, this means it ends at the first line which has
   a smaller indentation than the first line of the help text.
+ "---help---" and "help" do not differ in behaviour, "---help---" is
+ used to help visually seperate configuration logic from help within
+ the file as an aid to developers.
 
 
 Menu dependencies

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Stewart Smith
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