Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

[Marc Herbert]

Masahiro,

On 09/01/2018 23:17, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

>  >   "(oldconfig used to be more verbose)"

>    The historical background is git.
>    If people are interested in archeology,
>    they would be able to do it by "git log", "git blame", etc.
>    We are generally interested in the current behavior.

I'd like to keep that sentence because it's there to explain the legacy and
confusing "--silentoldconfig" name which unfortunately still sticks out in
the *current* conf.c interface.

+       printf("  --silentoldconfig       Similar to oldconfig but generates configuration in\n"
+              "                          include/{generated/,config/} (oldconfig used to be more verbose)\n");

The purpose of this sentence is to warn people that: "silentoldconfig is
just archeology, so you can safely ignore it" and save them time.

The alternative I considered was to entirely remove "silentconfig" not just
from the Makefile's help but from the conf.c help too.

Thoughts?

-- 
Marc