[U-Boot] [PATCH] Kconfig: Simple aesthetic/grammar fixes to top-level Kconfig

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sat Apr 16 11:53:07 CEST 2016


Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>

---

diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
index e7002ed..f53759a 100644
--- a/Kconfig
+++ b/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #
 # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
-# see Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.
+# see the file Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt in the
+# Linux kernel source tree.
 #
 mainmenu "U-Boot $UBOOTVERSION Configuration"

@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ config LOCALVERSION
 	string "Local version - append to U-Boot release"
 	help
 	  Append an extra string to the end of your U-Boot version.
-	  This will show up on your boot log, for example.
+	  This will show up in your boot log, for example.
 	  The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
 	  any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
 	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
@@ -28,11 +29,11 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
 	default y
 	help
 	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
-	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
+	  release tree by looking for Git tags that belong to the current
 	  top of tree revision.

 	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
-	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
+	  if a Git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
 	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
 	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.

@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ config SYS_MALLOC_F
 	bool "Enable malloc() pool before relocation"
 	default y if DM
 	help
-	  Before relocation memory is very limited on many platforms. Still,
+	  Before relocation, memory is very limited on many platforms. Still,
 	  we can provide a small malloc() pool if needed. Driver model in
 	  particular needs this to operate, so that it can allocate the
 	  initial serial device and any others that are needed.
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ config SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
 	depends on SYS_MALLOC_F
 	default 0x400
 	help
-	  Before relocation memory is very limited on many platforms. Still,
+	  Before relocation, memory is very limited on many platforms. Still,
 	  we can provide a small malloc() pool if needed. Driver model in
 	  particular needs this to operate, so that it can allocate the
 	  initial serial device and any others that are needed.
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ menuconfig EXPERT
 	  This option allows certain base U-Boot options and settings
 	  to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
 	  environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" U-Boot.
-	  Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
+	  Use this only if you really know what you are doing.

 if EXPERT
 	config SYS_MALLOC_CLEAR_ON_INIT
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ if EXPERT
 	  Then the boot time can be significantly reduced.
 	  Warning:
 	  When disabling this, please check if malloc calls, maybe
-	  should be replaced by calloc - if expects zeroed memory.
+	  should be replaced by calloc - if one expects zeroed memory.
 endif
 endmenu		# General setup

@@ -117,10 +118,10 @@ config SPL
 config SPL_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
 	bool
 	depends on SPL
-	prompt "Only use malloc_simple functions in the spl"
+	prompt "Only use malloc_simple functions in the SPL"
 	help
 	  Say Y here to only use the *_simple malloc functions from
-	  malloc_simple.c, rather then using the versions from dlmalloc.c
+	  malloc_simple.c, rather then using the versions from dlmalloc.c;
 	  this will make the SPL binary smaller at the cost of more heap
 	  usage as the *_simple malloc functions do not re-use free-ed mem.


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Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
                        http://crashcourse.ca

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