From: Michael Gerdau <mgd@technosis.de>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 07:35:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705150736.04227.mgd@technosis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0705142227350.9570@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
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> >Seriously, it might be a tad more efficient if the help texts were
> >written by those who invented the options in the first place.
>
> menuconfig NETDEV_10000
> bool "Ethernet (10GbE)"
> ---help--
> Say Y here to actually be able to go into this menu
> and select some drivers that we think belong to the
> "10 Gigabit Ethernet" family.
>
> If unsure, it is unwise to say N!
>
> See, this looks so fundamentally basic to me that I find it
> almost funny. YMMV, hence I asked for suggestions from
> other people.
I remember very well the time when I first issued make menuconfig.
Ever since then I've been grateful for all those "fundamentally basic"
explanations. And I've learned quite alot about kernelconfig just
by reading them.
Best,
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-15 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-13 3:20 Linux 2.6.22-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2007-05-13 9:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-17 6:55 ` Len Brown
2007-05-13 9:29 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1, 'nother randconfig Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 11:44 ` David Howells
2007-05-14 17:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-15 9:26 ` David Howells
2007-05-15 9:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-13 9:47 ` [PATCH] driver core: fix warning of temporarily unused multithreaded probing function (was: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1) Borislav Petkov
2007-05-14 8:06 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-05-13 12:44 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1 Alessandro Suardi
2007-05-13 12:44 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-05-13 17:10 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-13 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-13 18:50 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-14 6:10 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 8:34 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-14 12:14 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 13:28 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-14 15:21 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 16:04 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-14 16:23 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-05-14 18:08 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 18:25 ` Antonino Ingargiola
2007-05-14 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-14 18:24 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-14 19:28 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-14 19:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-14 20:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-14 20:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-14 20:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-15 20:31 ` CONFIG_BREAK_MY_MACHINE was " Pavel Machek
2007-05-16 18:11 ` CONFIG_BREAK_MY_MACHINE Jean Delvare
2007-05-17 8:32 ` CONFIG_BREAK_MY_MACHINE Hans de Goede
2007-05-17 8:47 ` CONFIG_BREAK_MY_MACHINE Pavel Machek
2007-05-13 18:19 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1 Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-13 23:20 ` David Miller
2007-05-13 23:32 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-13 23:57 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-14 4:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-14 4:53 ` David Miller
2007-05-14 6:21 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-14 17:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 17:32 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 20:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 18:01 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-14 20:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 21:40 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-14 22:09 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 3:02 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 8:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 21:54 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 2:34 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 2:42 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 6:05 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 6:01 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 8:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-16 1:52 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-16 6:29 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-16 9:56 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 10:43 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-16 1:39 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-16 9:14 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-16 9:17 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 5:35 ` Michael Gerdau [this message]
2007-05-13 20:51 ` 2.6.22-rc1: loop.c Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-14 3:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-13 22:53 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1 Jeff Chua
2007-05-14 1:08 ` andrew hendry
2007-05-14 7:49 ` V4L Regression (Was: Linux 2.6.22-rc1) Robert Fitzsimons
2007-05-15 4:14 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc1 andrew hendry
2007-05-15 4:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-15 5:10 ` andrew hendry
2007-05-15 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-15 22:50 ` andrew hendry
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-13 6:00 Jeff Chua
2007-05-13 6:13 ` Jeff Chua
2007-05-13 8:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
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