Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5

[Eric S. Raymond]

Nicolas Pitre <[e-mail]>:
> > CONFIG_XSCALE_IQ80310
> 
> 1- This symbol is mine;
> 2- It is part of 2.4.6-pre5 only as a dependency argument, with no
>    point where a value is actually assigned to it;
> 3- It is likely to be different when the actual question for which the
>    user need an help text is merged into the mainline kernel.
> 
> So you can safely ignore it for now.

I've put it on my ignore list.
 
> Maybe it could be a good thing for your tool to ignore missing help text for
> symbols that don't get enabled interactively by the user?

It already does that for derivations (in CML1, define_*).  The real problem 
here is that my report generators aren't smart enough to tell when a CML1
symbol is referenced in a CML1 config but never set.  That problem could be
solved, but it's unusual that I don't think it's worth the effort.
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