2.5: Help for choice questions doesn't work

In 2.5.47 the help for choice questions (e.g. "Processor family" or "High Memory Support" in the "Processor type and features" menu) doesn't work in "make menuconfig", there's always a "There is no help available for this kernel option." displayed.

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Adrian

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

I noticed that too. It works on the top level choice(before you get into the selections). I was just thinking about suggesting to Roman that we could either show the same help all the way down in those multiple choice cases, or provide a link back up to the main help. Where it would actually show the text, but wouldn't repeat the same text 15 times(once for each choice). That functionality could probably come in handy in other cases too. I just don't know how hard that would be to implement.

--Brian Jackson

Hi,

Move the main help to the choice entry itself. All front ends expect the help now there. E.g.

choice
prompt "Processor family"
default M686
---help---
This is the processor type of your CPU. This information is used for optimizing purposes. In order to compile a kernel that can run on all x86 CPU types (albeit not optimally fast), you can specify "386" here.
...

The choice options can still have there own help entries, but only xconfig makes use of it.
I didn't do this automatically, since most help text entries need to be splitted somehow. I wanted to do this for a few common entries, but I haven't found the time yet.

bye, Roman