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Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

Date: Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 4:25 am

Paul Rolland wrote:
quoted text> getting too much of "No help text available"
> usually results in people no more reading the help text.

I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_
help text is a bug.
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sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Folkert van Heusden, (Fri Sep 7, 8:48 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Andi Kleen, (Sat Sep 8, 12:07 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, James Bottomley, (Sun Sep 9, 5:00 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Andi Kleen, (Sun Sep 9, 5:03 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Jeff Garzik, (Sun Sep 9, 5:11 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Sep 12, 6:46 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 10:54 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Adrian Bunk, (Fri Sep 14, 11:15 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Paul Rolland, (Sat Sep 15, 4:04 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, , (Sat Sep 15, 2:23 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 4:25 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Paul Rolland, (Sat Sep 15, 9:00 am)

x86_64 usability bug: Kconfig prompt without help text (was ..., Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 11:50 am)

Re: x86_64 usability bug: Kconfig prompt without help text (..., Andi Kleen, (Sat Sep 15, 12:21 pm)

[PATCH] x86_64: configure HPET_EMULATE_RTC automatically, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 1:13 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 11:37 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Adrian Bunk, (Fri Sep 14, 12:16 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 12:50 pm)

[PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core..., Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 12:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Sep 14, 2:54 pm)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 4:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Sep 14, 4:21 pm)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 5:06 pm)

[PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SC..., Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 5:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 8:59 am)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 9:19 am)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., FUJITA Tomonori, (Fri Sep 14, 6:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 2:16 am)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., FUJITA Tomonori, (Sat Sep 15, 6:52 am)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 8:30 am)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., FUJITA Tomonori, (Sat Sep 15, 8:53 am)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Sep 14, 5:11 pm)

[RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 2:02 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 4:20 pm)

[PATCH update] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 5:22 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Sam Ravnborg, (Fri Sep 14, 3:00 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Fri Sep 14, 3:06 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 4:01 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 7:40 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 8:24 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Maciej W. Rozycki, (Mon Sep 17, 7:29 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Mon Sep 17, 10:46 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 8:50 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 9:20 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 9:53 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 10:11 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 10:43 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 11:27 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 12:42 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Jeff Garzik, (Sat Sep 15, 11:44 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 12:23 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Greg KH, (Sun Sep 16, 4:12 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz..., (Sat Sep 15, 12:52 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Jeff Garzik, (Sat Sep 15, 3:17 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz..., (Sat Sep 15, 4:54 pm)

[PATCH] SCSI: trailing whitespace in Kconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 2:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Jeff Garzik, (Fri Sep 14, 12:29 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Andi Kleen, (Sun Sep 9, 5:22 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Bauke Jan Douma, (Tue Sep 11, 4:16 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, James Bottomley, (Sun Sep 9, 5:39 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Mon Sep 10, 2:38 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Rene Herman, (Mon Sep 10, 8:43 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Randy Dunlap, (Sat Sep 8, 12:50 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Andi Kleen, (Sat Sep 8, 2:13 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 2:30 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Andi Kleen, (Sat Sep 8, 3:14 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 3:32 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Matthew Wilcox, (Sat Sep 8, 12:53 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Randy Dunlap, (Fri Sep 7, 11:35 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Helge Hafting, (Thu Sep 13, 4:50 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Goswin von Brederlow, (Fri Sep 14, 12:42 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 2:44 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Sep 8, 4:43 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Folkert van Heusden, (Fri Sep 7, 11:59 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 7, 12:21 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Folkert van Heusden, (Fri Sep 7, 7:05 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 3:05 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Randy Dunlap, (Sat Sep 8, 12:31 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 12:44 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Randy Dunlap, (Sat Sep 8, 12:48 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 3:45 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Sep 8, 3:29 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 3:56 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Sep 7, 10:40 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Folkert van Heusden, (Fri Sep 7, 10:58 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Krzysztof Halasa, (Fri Sep 7, 3:38 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Sep 7, 7:02 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Sep 8, 3:27 am)

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