[PATCH v2 0/2] kbuild: Show Kconfig fragments in "help"

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Sun Aug 27 23:17:07 PDT 2023


Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 4:55 AM Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is my series to show *.config targets in the "help" target so these
>> various topics can be more easily discoverd.
>>
>> v2:
>>  - split .fragment from .config to hide "internal" fragments
>
> Please do not do this churn.

That was my idea :}

> Like Randy, I did not get "why" part quiet well,
> but if you are eager about this,
> you can show help message only when the following
> ("# Help:" prefix for example) is found in the first line.
>
> # Help: blah blah
> # other comment

I did think of that, but wasn't sure how to do it in make.

cheers



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