[U-Boot] uh ... is it "help" or "---help---"?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Apr 21 13:20:21 CEST 2016


On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Tom Rini wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 01:30:00PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   more teeth-gnashing pedantry ... is Kconfig standard "help" or
> > "---help---"?
>
> Looking at Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt in the kernel:
>
> - help text: "help" or "---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.

  oh, i know both are valid, i just wondered whether u-boot coding
style/standards had a preference.

rday

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