linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@axxeo.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: kconfig: help includes dependency information
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 05:02:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501010502.55612.ioe-lkml@axxeo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041230235309.GD9450@mars.ravnborg.org>

Hi Sam, 

nice to have this information available now.

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> # This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch.
> #
> # ChangeSet
> #   2004/12/31 00:43:45+01:00 sam@mars.ravnborg.org
> #   kconfig: help includes dependency information
> #
> #   When selecting help on a menu item display
> #   "depends on:"
> #   "selects:"
> #   "selected by:"
> #
> #   Only relevant headlines are displayed - so if no "selects:" appear then
> this menu #   does not select a specific symbol.
> #   Loosly based on a patch by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>

I would prefer this information at the END of the help text,
since it is actually most useful to developers and more advanced users 
and thus equals in value to the old notice how a module is called.

If I call for help, I usually like to know WHAT it is and then WHY I might
need it.

Using the verbose config information and linking to their help texts would 
make it even more user friendly in my opinion.

"depends on:" is not really needed, since you usually cannot select any 
option, where you didn't fulfill the dependencies, AFAICS.


Regards

Ingo Oeser


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-01  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-30 23:51 kconfig: Sam Ravnborg
2004-12-30 23:52 ` kconfig: avoid temporary file Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-03  0:55   ` Roman Zippel
2005-01-03  5:10     ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-05 12:40       ` Roman Zippel
2005-01-05 18:14         ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-06 14:53           ` Roman Zippel
2004-12-30 23:52 ` kconfig: remove noise from show_expr Sam Ravnborg
2004-12-30 23:53 ` kconfig: help includes dependency information Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-01  4:02   ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2005-01-02 20:16     ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-03 19:24       ` Ingo Oeser
2005-01-03  0:34 ` kconfig: Roman Zippel
2005-01-03  5:11   ` kconfig: Sam Ravnborg
     [not found] <fa.hcrei7d.knakqt@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.gau82p1.1g24ton@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-01  8:58   ` kconfig: help includes dependency information Bodo Eggert

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200501010502.55612.ioe-lkml@axxeo.de \
    --to=ioe-lkml@axxeo.de \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=sam@ravnborg.org \
    --cc=zippel@linux-m68k.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).