Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

[Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>]

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.
> 
> "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.

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