Re: oldconfig/menuconfig help text display for "choice" items

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 00:07:37 EST


On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:02:19AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> when running oldconfig, I got to see some new IO delay questions,
> and tried displaying its info using ?.
>
> IO delay type
> 1. port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended] (IO_DELAY_0X80) (NEW)
> > 2. port 0xed based port-IO delay (IO_DELAY_0XED) (NEW)
> 3. udelay based port-IO delay (IO_DELAY_UDELAY) (NEW)
> 4. no port-IO delay (IO_DELAY_NONE) (NEW)
> choice[1-4]: ?
>
> Sorry, no help available for this option yet.
>
>
> The IO_DELAY_* "config" items have a help text, while the "choice"
> item does not.
> Are there any plans on 'fixing' oldconfig to somehow tell me something
> about such new options?

IT should be fixed but I have not looked into to it.
Roman?

Sam
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