From: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix the obvious errors in the explanation of Kconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/CodingStyle | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.22-rc1.orig/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ linux-2.6.22-rc1/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -495,29 +495,40 @@ re-formatting you may want to take a loo remember: "indent" is not a fix for bad programming. - Chapter 10: Configuration-files + Chapter 10: Kconfig configuration files -For configuration options (arch/xxx/Kconfig, and all the Kconfig files), -somewhat different indentation is used. - -Help text is indented with 2 spaces. - -if CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL - tristate CONFIG_BOOM - default n - help - Apply nitroglycerine inside the keyboard (DANGEROUS) - bool CONFIG_CHEER - depends on CONFIG_BOOM - default y +For all of the Kconfig* configuration files throughout the source tree, +the indentation is somewhat different. Lines under a "config" definition +are indented with one tab, while help text is indented an additional two +spaces. Example: + +config AUDIT + bool "Auditing support" + depends on NET help - Output nice messages when you explode -endif + Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another + kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for + logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call + auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. + +Features that might still be considered unstable should be defined as +dependent on "EXPERIMENTAL": + +config SLUB + depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT + bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" + ... + +while seriously dangerous features (such as write support for certain +filesystems) should advertise this prominently in their prompt string: + +config ADFS_FS_RW + bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" + depends on ADFS_FS + ... -Generally, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL should surround all options not considered -stable. All options that are known to trash data (experimental write- -support for file-systems, for instance) should be denoted (DANGEROUS), other -experimental options should be denoted (EXPERIMENTAL). +For full documentation on the configuration files, see the file +Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt. Chapter 11: Data structures - 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/