From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:58:01 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] packages/Config.in: Alphabetical entries sorting In-Reply-To: References: <1382620587-22563-1-git-send-email-maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> Message-ID: <526A40A9.3050800@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 25/10/13 10:48, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Maxime Hadjinlian > wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Thomas De Schampheleire > >>>>> By the way, I don't think that 'firmwares' is correct English, the >>>>> '-ware' already is plural, so it should be 'Misc devices firmware' or >>>>> maybe plain 'Firmware' (are there other firmware packages in buildroot >>>>> that are not part of this menu?). >>>> After a very quick search, it seems you are right about the 's' of firmware. >>>> About the naming of the menu, we already are in Hardware menu, so >>>> talking about "devices" may seem redundant, and the Misc is maybe too >>>> cumbersome. Although, a simple "Firmware" would not be very friendly. >>>> How about settling on "Firmware's Devices" ? Give or take the casing. >>> >>> Then this should be 'Device firmware' >>> because "Firmware's Devices" means "The devices of firmware" which is >>> not what you intend to say. >>> >>> I'm not convinced there exists firmware for something else than a >>> device though. For me 'Firmware' or 'Device firmware' are both ok. >> I just though "Firmware" to be a bit blunt, but I am not really good >> at wordings as you may have seen so I am OK with whatever is wanted. > > I'm looking forward to the opinion of others. I am just one of the > developers, like you. Firmware blobs? Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F