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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.22-rc1
    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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    Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
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