Hello Rusty, On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 10:06:52PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > I know writing decent Kconfig help entries is an obscure art, but can > we please try harder to make the help, y'know, helpful? See below for > my experience with 2.6.21-mm1. > > How come the Kconfig help for EXTERNAL_POWER says "is mandatory for > battery class support" and I still get prompted for "Battery class > support" when I say N? > > How come both these entries are of form "Foo (FOO)? -- Say Y here to > enable foo."? Shouldn't we assume the reader knows what Y means? > > How about: > > Battery class support (BATTERY) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) ? > > This allows battery monitoring by userspace via sysfs (if > available) and/or APM kernel interface (if selected below). Say > Y or M if building a kernel for a laptop. > > I don't even understand the CONFIG_EXTERNAL_POWER enough to comment on > that one 8( >
Thank you for the message, Rusty. It's "fixed" already in battery2-2.6.git. Yes, battery/external power separation was a complicated part of whole battery stuff. Now, thanks to David Woodhouse, external power and battery classes merged, and there is much simpler configuration now: * * Power supply class support * Power supply class support (POWER_SUPPLY) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) m Power supply debug (POWER_SUPPLY_DEBUG) [N/y/?] (NEW) y Generic PDA/phone power driver (PDA_POWER) [N/m/?] (NEW) m DS2760 battery driver (HP iPAQ & others) (BATTERY_DS2760) [N/m/?] (NEW) m One Laptop Per Child battery (BATTERY_OLPC) [N/m/?] (NEW) m That's all you have to answer. Thanks, -- Anton Vorontsov email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc://irc.freenode.org/bd2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
