Missing Help?

[Nick Holloway]

anders en alarsen.net (Anders Larsen) writes:
> Horst von Brand wrote:
> >     perl scripts/checkhelp.pl $(find . -name "Config*")
> >...
> > QNX4 filesystem support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)
> > CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS
> 
> Is it possible that your perl script produces false alarms?

There are false alarms caused by the "checkhelp" script not recognising
config items which have white space after the config variable.  These help
entries are handled by "config" and "menuconfig".

The only example of this in 2.3.40 is CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS, but here is a
patch to "checkhelp.pl" to catch this.

--- scripts/checkhelp.pl~	Sat Jan 29 17:30:44 2000
+++ scripts/checkhelp.pl	Sat Jan 29 17:33:26 2000
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 			$what=$3;
 			$name=$2;
 			s/$3//;
-			@found = grep (/$what$/, @options);
+			@found = grep (/$what\s*$/, @options);
 			if ($#found == -1) {
 				next if $nohelp{$what};
 				print "$name\n$what\n  No help for $what\n\n";

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