Re: This month's price for the most useless new Kconfig help text ...

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Thu May 01 2008 - 14:38:15 EST


Stefan Richter, le Thu 01 May 2008 19:36:25 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >--- linux/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig.orig 2008-05-01
> >14:13:03.000000000 +0100
> >+++ linux/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig 2008-05-01
> >14:12:50.000000000 +0100
> >@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
> > ---help---
> > Enable a submenu where accessibility items may be enabled.
> >
> >+ Accessibility handles all special kinds of hardware devices or
> >+ software adapters which help people with disabilities (e.g.
> >+ blindness) to use computers.
> >+
> >+ That includes braille devices, speech synthesis, keyboard
> >+ remapping, etc.
> >+
> > If unsure, say N.
>
> Would you mind replacing also the first sentence by something which
> indicates whether this option alone already changes the kernel build?

Here it is.

Samuel



Indicate that enabling just CONFIG_ACCESSIBILITY does not add code.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

--- linux/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig.orig 2008-05-01 19:34:11.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig 2008-05-01 19:35:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
menuconfig ACCESSIBILITY
bool "Accessibility support"
---help---
- Enable a submenu where accessibility items may be enabled.
-
Accessibility handles all special kinds of hardware devices or
software adapters which help people with disabilities (e.g.
blindness) to use computers.
@@ -10,6 +8,11 @@
That includes braille devices, speech synthesis, keyboard
remapping, etc.

+ Say Y here to get to see options for accessibility.
+ This option alone does not add any kernel code.
+
+ If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
+
If unsure, say N.

if ACCESSIBILITY
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