On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 07:07:41PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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."
Then shouldn't this not have a prompt and just be selected by those 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) /me is looking forward to this rant ;-) -- Steve -- 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/
