X-Git-Url: http://git.rot13.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fkbuild%2Fkconfig-language.txt;h=536d5bfbdb8d390fa412d6e0b200ac980ecebecd;hb=5cb69bcacea70024252138a9cb4229a142a93389;hp=003fccc14d241bfb5445aec93e13d9ead4ac5d25;hpb=db1a19b38f3a85f475b4ad716c71be133d8ca48e;p=powerpc.git diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt index 003fccc14d..536d5bfbdb 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Introduction ------------ -The configuration database is collection of configuration options +The configuration database is a collection of configuration options organized in a tree structure: +- Code maturity level options @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ them. A single configuration option is defined like this: config MODVERSIONS bool "Set version information on all module symbols" - depends MODULES + depends on MODULES help Usually, modules have to be recompiled whenever you switch to a new kernel. ... @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax). 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 seperate configuration logic from help within + used to help visually separate configuration logic from help within the file as an aid to developers. @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ The position of a menu entry in the tree is determined in two ways. First it can be specified explicitly: menu "Network device support" - depends NET + depends on NET config NETDEVICES ... @@ -188,10 +188,10 @@ config MODULES config MODVERSIONS bool "Set version information on all module symbols" - depends MODULES + depends on MODULES comment "module support disabled" - depends !MODULES + depends on !MODULES MODVERSIONS directly depends on MODULES, this means it's only visible if MODULES is different from 'n'. The comment on the other hand is always @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ menuconfig: "menuconfig" -This is similiar to the simple config entry above, but it also gives a +This is similar to the simple config entry above, but it also gives a hint to front ends, that all suboptions should be displayed as a separate list of options.