On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:35:51PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> + PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables >> + larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It >> + has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also >> + consumes more pagetable space per process.
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:52:35AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > It's not specific to this help text, but I start becoming a bit picky > about this issues: > If you understand this help text after reading it, you don't need a help > text for this option... ;-) > What is "NX support"? > What are "non-overcommit purposes"? > What is "pagetable lookup overhead"? > And if in doubt, should I say Y or N? > "System administrator who knows which hardware components he put into > the computer and which filesystems his data is on" might be a good > description for the average kconfig user, and these are the people who > should understand this help text. I would like to have some place to explain issues such as those, but there are as of yet no designated places for tutorial-level information. If such a place were provided, I would provide storybook commentary to explain all those. Similarly actually holds for kernel function docbook. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
