Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758571AbXENSBR (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 14:01:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756922AbXENSBK (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 14:01:10 -0400 Received: from mail.phnxsoft.com ([195.227.45.4]:2194 "EHLO posthamster.phnxsoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756717AbXENSBI (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 14:01:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4648A3DF.7040004@imap.cc> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 20:01:03 +0200 From: Tilman Schmidt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061211 SeaMonkey/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: LKML Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 References: <4647569D.7010709@imap.cc> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig2FB4F99B9288C88FDA839720" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2309 Lines: 63 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2FB4F99B9288C88FDA839720 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jan Engelhardt schrieb: > On May 13 2007 20:19, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> >>Would it be asking too much to have help texts on the following >>new (wrt 2.6.21) configuration options? >> >>ESP Scsi Driver Core (SCSI_ESP_CORE) [N/m] (NEW) >>Macintosh device drivers (MACINTOSH_DRIVERS) [Y/n] (NEW) >>Ethernet (1000 Mbit) (NETDEV_1000) [Y/n] (NEW) >>Ethernet (10000 Mbit) (NETDEV_10000) [Y/n] (NEW) >> >>Those for the latter three could/should say something like the >>one for the WLAN_80211 option. >=20 > "Patches welcome" ;-) Sure. Just tell me exactly what those options are intended to do and I'll happily write up a patch adding help texts trying to express that in bad English. :-) Seriously, it might be a tad more efficient if the help texts were written by those who invented the options in the first place. > As for NETDEV_1000 and _10000, I really wonder if we need anymore > help text than the option. I do not know what the minimum level > of user knowledge is that kconfig help texts need to support, > but maybe you can tell? For a start, it shouldn't require users to grep through Kconfigs and Makefiles in order to find out what effects an option has. --=20 Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Unge=F6ffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe R=FCckseite) --------------enig2FB4F99B9288C88FDA839720 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGSKPfMdB4Whm86/kRAniHAJ9+2ooXtauZEd3kw9ZT6yL4mP8h+wCcC+PT ob4vtFUgk43jzEc+5E/7bUc= =bAQ6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2FB4F99B9288C88FDA839720-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/