From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: This month's price for the most useless new Kconfig help text ...
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:01:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080501160129.GU4797@implementation.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080501154720.GA3476@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig, le Thu 01 May 2008 11:47:20 -0400, a écrit :
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:19:00PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > If the society was a bit more aware of accessibility troubles in general
> > (I mean in the street etc.), we wouldn't have to explain the word
>
> Blah, an agenda is not an excuse for bad option descriptions.
Sure, that's why I provided a patch :)
(I agree that Kconfig helps like "CONFIG_FUSION: Say Y here to get to
see options for Fusion Message Passing Technology (MPT) drivers" do not
help much, I just didn't know that people were now actually caring about
having some real explanations beyond the usual "if you don't know what
it is, you don't need it, just say no")
> And btw, the word accessibility in the sense used here doesn't translate
> at all into many foreign languages,
Right.
Samuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-01 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-01 12:09 This month's price for the most useless new Kconfig help text Andi Kleen
2008-05-01 13:19 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-05-01 15:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-01 16:01 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2008-05-01 17:04 ` Maxim Levitsky
2008-05-01 17:36 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-01 18:37 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-05-01 18:52 ` Stefan Richter
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2008-05-01 22:02 Roland
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