On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:16:00AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > PWM Support (PWM) [N/y/?] (NEW) ? > > CONFIG_PWM: > > This enables PWM support through the generic PWM framework. > > > Well that's.. enlightening.
Oh, there's one more enlightening sentence in the help: "You only need to enable this, if you also want to enable one or more of the PWM drivers below." Got it? :-) > I'm picking on PWM here, but this isn't an > isolated case. Every merge window we see a slew of new options with useless > help texts. They may as well be non-existent. (Actually in some cases, they > are). > > If someone has to read the code to find out what the driver is, your help > text probably sucks. > > > (I'll leave "why does this option even show up on x86" as a separate rant) Thierry, can you guys please fix this? Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/