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    SubjectRe: List of recent (2.4.0 to 2.4.2-ac18) CONFIG options needing Configure.help text.
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    On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:08:15 -0500, 
    Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
    >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?

    Not if we want to automate it for new options. Besides it makes a nice
    distinction in the code between user selectable options and options
    that config has worked out for itself.

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