On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 5:06 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Yamada-san,
>
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2020, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > Commit: a7f7f6248d9740d710fd6bd190293fe5e16410ac
> > Parent: e4a42c82e943b97ce124539fcd7a47445b43fa0d
> > Refname: refs/heads/master
> > Web:
> > https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/a7f7f6248d9740d710fd6bd190293fe5e16410ac
> > Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org>
> > AuthorDate: Sun Jun 14 01:50:22 2020 +0900
> > Committer: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org>
> > CommitDate: Sun Jun 14 01:57:21 2020 +0900
> >
> > treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'
> >
> > Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
> > '---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
> > decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.
> >
> > This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
> > I also fixed the indentation.
> >
> > There are a variety of indentation styles found.
> >
> > a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
> > b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
> > c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
> > d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
> > e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation)
> > f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
> > g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'
> >
> > In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
> > following commend:
> >
> > $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i
> > 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org>
> > diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
> > index 88b05b5256a9..1fa2fe2ef053 100644
> > --- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
> > @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ config PERMIT_BSP_REMOVE
> > bool "Support removal of Bootstrap Processor"
> > depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
> > default n
> > - ---help---
> > + help
> > Say Y here if your platform SAL will support removal of BSP with
> > HOTPLUG_CPU
> > support.
> >
> > @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ config FORCE_CPEI_RETARGET
> > bool "Force assumption that CPEI can be re-targeted"
> > depends on PERMIT_BSP_REMOVE
> > default n
> > - ---help---
> > + help
> > Say Y if you need to force the assumption that CPEI can be
> > re-targeted to
> > any cpu in the system. This hint is available via ACPI 3.0
> > specifications.
> > Tiger4 systems are capable of re-directing CPEI to any CPU other than
> > BSP.
>
> I guess help text blocks like the above should be indented?
> Unfortunately there are many of them.
Yes, the help body should be indented by 1 tab + 2 spaces,
which is documented in
Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
Since there are too many, I cannot fix them all.
> Thanks!
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
> ge...@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like
> that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
