Re: [PATCH V2] fs: Kconfig: Alignment of code and text in the FS_DAX help section for better readability

From: Jan Kara

Date: Tue Sep 01 2026 - 05:50:51 EST


On Mon 24-08-26 02:50:18, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
> I thought eliminating the line break and add an empty line would improve the
> readability.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202608240313.d7SDG2tE-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@xxxxxxxxx>

I don't know. It depends on the width of your terminal what's more
readable. I'd just leave it as is.

Honza

> ---
> Changes from V1:
> Getting rid of the unwanted ":" ;that was the source of build failure.
> fs/Kconfig | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> index e05917adcd60..a2e724cae76f 100644
> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -71,11 +71,10 @@ config FS_DAX
> struct pages. For the nfit based NVDIMMs this can be enabled
> using the ndctl utility:
>
> - # ndctl create-namespace --force --reconfig=namespace0.0 \
> - --mode=fsdax --map=mem
> + # ndctl create-namespace --force --reconfig=namespace0.0 --mode=fsdax --map=mem
> +
> + See the 'create-namespace' man page for details on the overhead of --map=mem
>
> - See the 'create-namespace' man page for details on the overhead of
> - --map=mem:
> https://docs.pmem.io/ndctl-user-guide/ndctl-man-pages/ndctl-create-namespace
>
> For ndctl to work CONFIG_DEV_DAX needs to be enabled as well. For most
> --
> 2.54.0
>
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR