[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename "---help---" to "help" in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due to this indentation even >> though only a minority of the entries was using "---help---" even >> before this patch. > > So why exactly has to be removed? Is it ugly? IMO

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename "---help---" to "help" in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:10:48AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch is the majority of a patch by Jesper Juhl. > > > > This patch renames all instances of "---help---" to simply "help" in all > > of the Kconfig files. > > > > The main

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename "---help---" to "help" in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:09:37PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > The separator used for the help is to indent help texts by two > > additional spaces. > > Yes, that's an additional indicator. > > > IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due t

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename "---help---" to "help" in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > So why exactly has to be removed? Is it ugly? Does it make Kconfig worse? > > The ugly thing is that there are currently two different ways to express > the same thing. It only causes confusion for people who think those > different syntaxes had a

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename "---help---" to "help" in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The separator used for the help is to indent help texts by two > additional spaces. Yes, that's an additional indicator. > IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due to this indentation even > though only a minority of the entries was using "---hel

[kbuild-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename "---help---" to "help" in Kconfig files (first part)

2005-05-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch is the majority of a patch by Jesper Juhl. > > This patch renames all instances of "---help---" to simply "help" in all > of the Kconfig files. > > The main reason for this patch (quoting Jesper) is: > > Consistency. out of ~4000 help en