Masahiro,

On 09/01/2018 23:17, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

 >   "(oldconfig used to be more verbose)"

   The historical background is git.
   If people are interested in archeology,
   they would be able to do it by "git log", "git blame", etc.
   We are generally interested in the current behavior.

I'd like to keep that sentence because it's there to explain the legacy and
confusing "--silentoldconfig" name which unfortunately still sticks out in
the *current* conf.c interface.

+       printf("  --silentoldconfig       Similar to oldconfig but generates configuration in\n"
+              "                          include/{generated/,config/} (oldconfig used to be more verbose)\n");

The purpose of this sentence is to warn people that: "silentoldconfig is
just archeology, so you can safely ignore it" and save them time.

The alternative I considered was to entirely remove "silentconfig" not just
from the Makefile's help but from the conf.c help too.

Thoughts?

-- 
Marc