Keith Owens wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:03:19 -0700,
> Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
> >With the 2.4.0 kernel, there were 476 CONFIG options which had
> >no help entry in Configure.help. With 2.4.2-ac18, this number is now 547,
> >which has been kept this low with 54 options getting Configure.help text.
>
> If any of these CONFIG_ options are always derived (i.e. the user never
> sees them on a config menu) then please add the suffix _DERIVED to such
> options. They still need to start with CONFIG_ to suit the kernel
> build dependency generator so we cannot change the start of the name.
> Appending _DERIVED will make it obvious that the options require no
> help text.
Yow. That is very cumbersome. Can't you just keep a list somewhere,
instead of making such options longer?
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