Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename "---help---" to "help" in Kconfigfiles (first part)

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 04:15:47 EST


Hi,

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> This patch is the majority of a patch by Jesper Juhl.
>
> This patch renames all instances of "---help---" to simply "help" in all
> of the Kconfig files.
>
> The main reason for this patch (quoting Jesper) is:
>
> Consistency. out of ~4000 help entries in 134 Kconfig files, 747 of
> those entries use "---help---" as the keyword, the rest use just "help".
> So the users of "---help---" are clearly a minority and by renaming them
> we make things consistent. - I hate inconsistency. :-)

This has nothing to do with consistency but with readability.
This was introduced to better separate the help in large menu entries. In
order to accept this patch, I would either like hear reasons, why this
isn't needed anymore or I'd like to see an alternative, more consistent
separator.

bye, Roman
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