Re: [PATCH] kconfig: remove ---help--- from documentation

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Wed Dec 18 2019 - 09:17:18 EST


On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 8:52 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
> '---help---'"), scripts/checkpatch.pl warns the use of ---help---.
>
> This still exists, but new code should avoid using it.
> Let's stop advertising it in documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild.

>
> Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
> index 74bef19f69f0..231e6a64957f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
> @@ -196,14 +196,11 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
> or equal to the first symbol and smaller than or equal to the second
> symbol.
>
> -- help text: "help" or "---help---"
> +- help text: "help"
>
> This defines a help text. The end of the help text is determined by
> the indentation level, this means it ends at the first line which has
> a smaller indentation than the first line of the help text.
> - "---help---" and "help" do not differ in behaviour, "---help---" is
> - used to help visually separate configuration logic from help within
> - the file as an aid to developers.
>
> - misc options: "option" <symbol>[=<value>]
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada