I would expect many documentation tools to obey the #ifdef and only add this section to the file documentation for configurations that have ENABLE_FOO defined. Maybe that is the reason.
Linux is not a code base. Or a distro. Or a kernel. It's an attitude. And it's not about Open Source. It's about a bunch of people who still think vi is a good config UI.
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