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So, I think this isn't configurable > by the user. Yes, I misremembered and the help text confused me. So yes, the help text in that case (internal entries) is uncommon (no need to guide the user when there are no options :) ), but feel free to keep it for documentation purposes. (e.g., HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS does that) Maybe we should call it similarly HAVE_... to make it clearer that there are really no options. But I'm bad at #kconfig, so whatever you prefer. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb