On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:05:12 -0800 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I understand why this is so. > > > 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? Here's what I found out the hard way. Maybe it just exposes my ignorance, I dunno. I build static kernels (non-modular?). I have a belkin usb-to-serial adapter. There's this one (hey I have a belkin so....): config USB_SERIAL_BELKIN tristate "USB Belkin and Peracom Single Port Serial Driver" help Say Y here if you want to use a Belkin USB Serial single port adaptor (F5U103 is one of the model numbers) or the Peracom single port USB to serial adapter. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called belkin_sa. This didn't work. Then, darn what'd I do wrong? So I thought maybe some udevness was needed. After this and that and other I gave up. But some months later I really wanted to dump my GPS data to disk so picked it up again. I finally found this other driver: config USB_SERIAL_MCT_U232 tristate "USB MCT Single Port Serial Driver" ---help--- Say Y here if you want to use a USB Serial single port adapter from Magic Control Technology Corp. (U232 is one of the model numbers). This driver also works with Sitecom U232-P25 and D-Link DU-H3SP USB BAY, Belkin F5U109, and Belkin F5U409 devices. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called mct_u232. That F5U409 is what mine is and it worked! I think it'd be good having the help for "config USB_SERIAL_BELKIN" mention that support for F5U109 and F5U409 is over in the "USB MCT Single Port Serial Driver" driver. Or change the MCT tristate to mention Sitecom,D-Link and Belkin. -- 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
