On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:44:36AM -0800, rh wrote: > I am curious to know if there are any rules applied to the text of tristate in > Kconfig. For example what's preferred in tristate text, the name that a user > would know because it's printed on the outside of the device or that name > of the chip or chip maker not visible except maybe programatically? Both would be good, especially for the help text. > I'm not certain at all who the audience is for the text that's in tristate. > Who builds kernels? Distro maintainers mostly? Yes, the large majority of people do not build their own kernels, but rely on distros do to it for them. > End users missing support for their unsupported-by-their-distro-device > and are now braving config? That's a much much much smaller group. Normally a distro builds all modules and the drivers are automatically loaded by the system when a device is detected. Are you having problems with the wording of some config items? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
