From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765343AbYEFQYY (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 12:24:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759227AbYEFQXh (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 12:23:37 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47806 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752975AbYEFQXe (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 12:23:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:23:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates In-Reply-To: <20080506154847.GA15299@havoc.gtf.org> Message-ID: References: <20080506154847.GA15299@havoc.gtf.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 May 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > +config PATA_SCH > + tristate "Intel SCH PATA support" > + depends on PCI > + help > + This option enables support for Intel SCH PATA on the Intel > + SCH (US15W, US15L, UL11L) series host controllers. > + > + If unsure, say N. I think it would generally be good if people explained their drivers better than this. If you know what the hell an SCH is, you don't *need* that help message in the first place! Agreed? IOW, when adding drivers, please add help messages that actually explain what the driver is from a *user* perspective, not from a chip designer perspective. In this case, something like The Intel SCH chipset is the new low-power, small-footprint embedded chipset that is generally paired with the Atom CPU and is not their normal PC chipset. or something. So that people can actually make a somewhat informed guess about whether it's relevant to them or not. Linus