From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: update Kconfig help texts (no functional changes) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:31:39 -0800 Message-ID: <499DCFBB.7060407@oracle.com> References: <20090219195548.20757.53184.stgit@bob.kio> <20090219195621.20757.83135.stgit@bob.kio> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:56535 "EHLO rgminet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755647AbZBSVbA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:31:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Len Brown wrote: >> drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 148 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- >> 1 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig >> index 8a851d0..7a3f52c 100644 >> --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig >> +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig >> @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ menuconfig ACPI >> select PNP >> select CPU_IDLE >> default y >> - ---help--- >> + help >> Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) support for >> - Linux requires an ACPI compliant platform (hardware/firmware), >> + Linux requires an ACPI-compliant platform (hardware/firmware), >> and assumes the presence of OS-directed configuration and power >> management (OSPM) software. This option will enlarge your >> kernel by about 70K. >> @@ -23,20 +23,18 @@ menuconfig ACPI >> the Plug-and-Play BIOS specification (PnP BIOS), the >> MultiProcessor Specification (MPS), and the Advanced Power >> Management (APM) specification. If both ACPI and APM support >> - are configured, whichever is loaded first shall be used. >> + are configured, ACPI is used. >> >> - The ACPI SourceForge project contains the latest source code, >> - documentation, tools, mailing list subscription, and other >> - information. This project is available at: >> - >> + The mailing list for ACPI in Linux is here: >> + > > per MAINTAINERS, the project home page is > http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/ > > Probably sufficient to just point there... > >> Linux support for ACPI is based on Intel Corporation's ACPI >> Component Architecture (ACPI CA). For more information see: >> > > ACPICA's home page moved here: > http://acpica.org/ > >> - ACPI is an open industry specification co-developed by Compaq, >> - Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba. The specification is >> - available at: >> + ACPI is an open industry specification co-developed by >> + Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba. >> + The specification is available at: >> > ... > >> config ACPI_VIDEO >> tristate "Video" >> @@ -141,38 +149,48 @@ config ACPI_VIDEO >> depends on INPUT >> select THERMAL >> help >> - This driver implement the ACPI Extensions For Display Adapters >> + This driver implements the ACPI Extensions For Display Adapters >> for integrated graphics devices on motherboard, as specified in >> - ACPI 2.0 Specification, Appendix B, allowing to perform some basic >> - control like defining the video POST device, retrieving EDID information >> - or to setup a video output, etc. >> - Note that this is an ref. implementation only. It may or may not work >> - for your integrated video device. >> + ACPI 2.0 Specification, Appendix B. This supports basic operations >> + such as defining the video POST device, retrieving EDID information, >> + and setting up a video output. >> + >> + Note that this is an reference implementation only. It may not >> + work for your integrated video device. > > we can probably strike the two lines above entirely. > It should work for everything that implements the spec, > and it is a bug if it does not. I was going to say s/an reference/a reference/, but deleting those 2 lines is fine with me. >> + >> + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: >> + the module will be called video. -- ~Randy