Missing Help?

From: Anders Larsen (anders@alarsen.net)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 09:28:47 EST

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    On Friday, 28 Jan 2000 11:32:32 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:

    > > > No configury help available for this option.
    > >
    > > ...and for quite a few others. Configure.help has never been
    > > really canonical. If you are interested in this sort of thing,
    > > would you mind running through Configure.help in the latest kernel,
    > > and building a list of CONFIG_xxx options without help?
    >
    > OK, running:
    >
    > perl scripts/checkhelp.pl $(find . -name "Config*")
    >
    > in 2.2.15pre5 gives:
    >...
    > QNX4 filesystem support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)
    > CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS
    >...
    >
    > in 2.3.41pre4 gives:
    >...
    > QNX4 filesystem support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)
    > CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS
    >...

    Is it possible that your perl script produces false alarms?
    On my system (x86) I get some ten lines of help for this option (both
    2.2.15pre5 and 2.3.41pre4)!??
    (I picked QNX4 since I've recently submitted patches to it).

    cheers
    Anders

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