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

[Samuel Thibault]

Andi Kleen, le Thu 01 May 2008 14:09:59 +0200, a écrit :
> <drumroll> ... gets CONFIG_ACCESSIBILITY
> 
> menuconfig ACCESSIBILITY
>         bool "Accessibility support"
>         ---help---
>           Enable a submenu where accessibility items may be enabled.
> 
> Can the help text be improved please? It should explain that accessibility in 
> this case means braille device drivers and possibly other similar devices.

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
</grin>.

Samuel



Add a small explanation of what accessibility is.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

--- linux/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig.orig	2008-05-01 14:13:03.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig	2008-05-01 14:12:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 	---help---
 	  Enable a submenu where accessibility items may be enabled.
 
+	  Accessibility handles all special kinds of hardware devices or
+	  software adapters which help people with disabilities (e.g.
+	  blindness) to use computers.
+
+	  That includes braille devices, speech synthesis, keyboard
+	  remapping, etc.
+
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
 if ACCESSIBILITY
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