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Message-ID: <20080501131900.GL4797@implementation.uk.xensource.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 14:19:00 +0100
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org, torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: This month's price for the most useless new Kconfig help text ...
Andi Kleen, le Thu 01 May 2008 14:09:59 +0200, a écrit :
> <drumroll> ... gets CONFIG_ACCESSIBILITY
>
> menuconfig ACCESSIBILITY
> bool "Accessibility support"
> ---help---
> Enable a submenu where accessibility items may be enabled.
>
> Can the help text be improved please? It should explain that accessibility in
> this case means braille device drivers and possibly other similar devices.
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
</grin>.
Samuel
Add a small explanation of what accessibility is.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
--- 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.
if ACCESSIBILITY
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