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

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Apr 21 13:28:20 CEST 2016


On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 07:20:21AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.

Ah, nope.  Just whatever reads well in the context of the file, like the
kernel.

-- 
Tom
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