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authorYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>2013-07-09 17:15:17 -0400
committerYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>2013-07-16 14:26:30 -0400
commit9e554dd7b2de269c697943712d91b668f27a42bd (patch)
tree35f59e04c245d50ef96fb34f820d4222a399e678 /Documentation/kbuild
parentb57caaaed2bd127fe656e6c145970ed6a05c0125 (diff)
Documentation/kconfig: more concise and straightforward search explanation
Re-phrase the explanations on the sorting of search results, in a more concise and complete way. Drop reference to the user's locale when sorting alphabetically, since this is implicit. Reported-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
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@@ -175,11 +175,9 @@ Searching in menuconfig:
175 /^hotplug 175 /^hotplug
176 176
177 When searching, symbols are sorted thus: 177 When searching, symbols are sorted thus:
178 - exact match first: an exact match is when the search matches 178 - first, exact matches, sorted alphabetically (an exact match
179 the complete symbol name; 179 is when the search matches the complete symbol name);
180 - alphabetical order: when two symbols do not match exactly, 180 - then, other matches, sorted alphabetically.
181 they are sorted in alphabetical order (in the user's current
182 locale).
183 For example: ^ATH.K matches: 181 For example: ^ATH.K matches:
184 ATH5K ATH9K ATH5K_AHB ATH5K_DEBUG [...] ATH6KL ATH6KL_DEBUG 182 ATH5K ATH9K ATH5K_AHB ATH5K_DEBUG [...] ATH6KL ATH6KL_DEBUG
185 [...] ATH9K_AHB ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT ATH9K_COMMON [...] 183 [...] ATH9K_AHB ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT ATH9K_COMMON [...]