Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755062AbXFKXwb (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:52:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752313AbXFKXwZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:52:25 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:60179 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751677AbXFKXwY (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:52:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:52:35 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Lord , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G Message-ID: <20070611235235.GR3588@stusta.de> References: <20070608023551.GJ15426@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070608023551.GJ15426@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1429 Lines: 44 On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:35:51PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >... > config X86_PAE >... > + help > + PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables > + larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It > + has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also > + consumes more pagetable space per process. >... It's not specific to this help text, but I start becoming a bit picky about this issues: If you understand this help text after reading it, you don't need a help text for this option... ;-) What is "NX support"? What are "non-overcommit purposes"? What is "pagetable lookup overhead"? And if in doubt, should I say Y or N? "System administrator who knows which hardware components he put into the computer and which filesystems his data is on" might be a good description for the average kconfig user, and these are the people who should understand this help text. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/