From: Maxim Levitsky <nadejdalevitsky@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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 20:04:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805012004.42706.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080501160129.GU4797@implementation.uk.xensource.com>
On Thursday, 1 May 2008 19:01:29 Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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")
Speaking of which I remember how I was confused when I found out that this driver
is the linux driver for "SCI logic" SCSI vmware adapter :-)
>
> > And btw, the word accessibility in the sense used here doesn't translate
> > at all into many foreign languages,
>
> Right.
>
> Samuel
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Regards,
Maxim Levitsky
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-01 17:05 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
2008-05-01 17:04 ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
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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