Commit d97eae80 authored by Stephen Brennan's avatar Stephen Brennan Committed by Masahiro Yamada

Documentation: kconfig: explicitly document missing prompt

There are a few lines in the kbuild-language.rst document which
obliquely reference the behavior of config options without prompts.
But there is nothing in the obvious location that explicitly calls
out that users cannot edit config options unless they have a prompt.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
parent 87af9388
......@@ -70,7 +70,11 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
Every menu entry can have at most one prompt, which is used to display
to the user. Optionally dependencies only for this prompt can be added
with "if".
with "if". If a prompt is not present, the config option is a non-visible
symbol, meaning its value cannot be directly changed by the user (such as
altering the value in ``.config``) and the option will not appear in any
config menus. Its value can only be set via "default" and "select" (see
below).
- default value: "default" <expr> ["if" <expr>]
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