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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2024-03-03 13:00:35 +0900
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2024-03-10 13:29:48 +0900
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kconfig: remove named choice support
Commit 5a1aa8a1aff6 ("kconfig: add named choice group") did not provide enough explanation regarding its benefits. A use case was found in another project [1] sometime later, this feature has never been used in the kernel. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/201012150034.01356.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr/ Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
index 0135905c0aa3..79ac2e8184f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ of C0, which doesn't depend on M::
choices::
- "choice" [symbol]
+ "choice"
<choice options>
<choice block>
"endchoice"
@@ -412,10 +412,6 @@ the kernel, but all drivers can be compiled as modules.
A choice accepts another option "optional", which allows to set the
choice to 'n' and no entry needs to be selected.
-If no [symbol] is associated with a choice, then you can not have multiple
-definitions of that choice. If a [symbol] is associated to the choice,
-then you may define the same choice (i.e. with the same entries) in another
-place.
comment::