From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762622AbYEARFD (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 13:05:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757183AbYEAREu (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 13:04:50 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:49265 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754273AbYEAREt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 13:04:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:from; b=c7JiGXlefwbOPoIYBDucljdKL3TyPTEkbkpIsqUJb6rgpqmf+4kA8gxZBIhP7z8UtoQwiSqGfHLquQxYPO8nvj9PI315eb2NJzkbnry7XvMOvV444U5ARKNtAdNkoe1nLb0lhy8VGXUOM9vTBXaKqGKoRPDYxmRz4vE1g7FGsjg= To: Samuel Thibault Subject: Re: This month's price for the most useless new Kconfig help text ... Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 20:04:42 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org References: <20080501120959.GA16700@basil.nowhere.org> <20080501154720.GA3476@infradead.org> <20080501160129.GU4797@implementation.uk.xensource.com> In-Reply-To: <20080501160129.GU4797@implementation.uk.xensource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805012004.42706.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> From: Maxim Levitsky Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Regards, Maxim Levitsky