Re: This month's price for the most useless new Kconfig help text ...

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Thu May 01 2008 - 13:05:04 EST


On Thursday, 1 May 2008 19:01:29 Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig, le Thu 01 May 2008 11:47:20 -0400, a écrit :
> > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:19:00PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > If the society was a bit more aware of accessibility troubles in general
> > > (I mean in the street etc.), we wouldn't have to explain the word
> >
> > Blah, an agenda is not an excuse for bad option descriptions.
>
> Sure, that's why I provided a patch :)
>
> (I agree that Kconfig helps like "CONFIG_FUSION: Say Y here to get to
> see options for Fusion Message Passing Technology (MPT) drivers" do not
> help much, I just didn't know that people were now actually caring about
> having some real explanations beyond the usual "if you don't know what
> it is, you don't need it, just say no")
Speaking of which I remember how I was confused when I found out that this driver
is the linux driver for "SCI logic" SCSI vmware adapter :-)

>
> > And btw, the word accessibility in the sense used here doesn't translate
> > at all into many foreign languages,
>
> Right.
>
> Samuel
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Regards,
Maxim Levitsky
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