[PATCH] small Kconfig help text correction for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

[PATCH] small Kconfig help text correction for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

[Jesper Juhl]

Fix-up the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER help text language a bit.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---

 "on some architectures or you use external debuggers"
  doesn't sound too good
 "on some architectures or if you use external debuggers"
  is better.

 lib/Kconfig.debug |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.14-rc4-orig/lib/Kconfig.debug	2005-10-11 22:41:32.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc4/lib/Kconfig.debug	2005-10-11 23:16:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 	default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
 	help
 	  If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
-	  and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information
-	  on some architectures or you use external debuggers.
+	  and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
+	  some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
 	  If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
 

Re: [PATCH] small Kconfig help text correction for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:22:21PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Fix-up the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER help text language a bit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
>  "on some architectures or you use external debuggers"
>   doesn't sound too good
>  "on some architectures or if you use external debuggers"
>   is better.


Why bother anyway since the original is brief and neat.  (yours could be s/if/when/ even)


		Coywolf

> 
>  lib/Kconfig.debug |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.14-rc4-orig/lib/Kconfig.debug	2005-10-11 22:41:32.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.14-rc4/lib/Kconfig.debug	2005-10-11 23:16:30.000000000 +0200
> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
>  	default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
>  	help
>  	  If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
> -	  and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information
> -	  on some architectures or you use external debuggers.
> +	  and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
> +	  some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
>  	  If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
>  
> 
> 
> -

Re: [PATCH] small Kconfig help text correction for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

[Felix Oxley]

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 02:25, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:22:21PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> Why bother anyway since the original is brief and neat.  (yours could be
> s/if/when/ even)

I would definitely agree with Jesper that the current version needs changing.
However, I don't know technically whether it means:

a) you will need an external debugger to get this information
b) this information will be available in the log (etc) and ALSO via an 
external debugger

regards,
Felix

>
> >  	  If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
> > -	  and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information
> > -	  on some architectures or you use external debuggers.
> > +	  and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
> > +	  some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
> >  	  If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.

Re: [PATCH] small Kconfig help text correction for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

[Jesper Juhl]

On 10/12/05, Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:22:21PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Fix-up the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER help text language a bit.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >
> >  "on some architectures or you use external debuggers"
> >   doesn't sound too good
> >  "on some architectures or if you use external debuggers"
> >   is better.
>
>
> Why bother anyway since the original is brief and neat.  (yours could be s/if/when/ even)
>

We can argue the exact wording (using "when" is probably better, I
agree), but the current text is just not proper english.


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