Browse Source

kconfig-language: elaborate on the type of a choice

The type of a choice can be specified explicitely or it will be
set according to members of the choice group, see menu.c:menu_finalize().

Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Dirk Gouders 9 years ago
parent
commit
032a318719
1 changed files with 11 additions and 6 deletions
  1. 11 6
      Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

+ 11 - 6
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

@@ -284,12 +284,17 @@ choices:
 	"endchoice"
 	"endchoice"
 
 
 This defines a choice group and accepts any of the above attributes as
 This defines a choice group and accepts any of the above attributes as
-options. A choice can only be of type bool or tristate, while a boolean
-choice only allows a single config entry to be selected, a tristate
-choice also allows any number of config entries to be set to 'm'. This
-can be used if multiple drivers for a single hardware exists and only a
-single driver can be compiled/loaded into the kernel, but all drivers
-can be compiled as modules.
+options. A choice can only be of type bool or tristate.  If no type is
+specified for a choice, it's type will be determined by the type of
+the first choice element in the group or remain unknown if none of the
+choice elements have a type specified, as well.
+
+While a boolean choice only allows a single config entry to be
+selected, a tristate choice also allows any number of config entries
+to be set to 'm'. This can be used if multiple drivers for a single
+hardware exists and only a single driver can be compiled/loaded into
+the kernel, but all drivers can be compiled as modules.
+
 A choice accepts another option "optional", which allows to set the
 A choice accepts another option "optional", which allows to set the
 choice to 'n' and no entry needs to be selected.
 choice to 'n' and no entry needs to be selected.
 If no [symbol] is associated with a choice, then you can not have multiple
 If no [symbol] is associated with a choice, then you can not have multiple