Re: [PATCH 1/1] v4l: Kconfig: Drop subdev API option help text

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 10:41:01PM +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 10:32:55PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 08:54:12PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > Hi Sakari,
> > > 
> > > Thank you for the patch.
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 08:39:20PM +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > > The config option text was recently removed, also remove the help text.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Actually, on second thought, isn't it useful to keep the help text as
> > documentation ?
> 
> We haven't generally done that for other such options either. This was
> intended for end users IMO.

I don't have a strong opinion, but this came to my attention when
reviewing your patch that adds selection of GENERIC_PHY_MIPI_DPHY for
sun6i. The GENERIC_PHY_MIPI_DPHY symbol isn't user-selectable but has a
help text. A short documentation is useful in my opinion.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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