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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst index 71b38a7670f3..43037be96a16 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst @@ -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>] |