fixdep: make gendered language gender-neutral

Fix awkward phrasing and change instances of gendered language
to gender-neutral in code comments to improve consistency and clarity.

Signed-off-by: Elsie Heck <its@elc.moe>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260717195939.25130-1-its@elc.moe
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
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Elsie Heck
2026-07-24 06:55:34 +02:00
committed by Nicolas Schier
parent bef89424e9
commit 7c6d9ceffa
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@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@
* gcc produces a very nice and correct list of dependencies which
* tells make when to remake a file.
*
* To use this list as-is however has the drawback that virtually
* However, to use this list as-is has the drawback that virtually
* every file in the kernel includes autoconf.h.
*
* If the user re-runs make *config, autoconf.h will be
* regenerated. make notices that and will rebuild every file which
* includes autoconf.h, i.e. basically all files. This is extremely
* annoying if the user just changed CONFIG_HIS_DRIVER from n to m.
* annoying if the user just changed CONFIG_USER_DRIVER from n to m.
*
* So we play the same trick that "mkdep" played before. We replace
* the dependency on autoconf.h by a dependency on every config
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@
* which then let make pick up the changes and the files that use
* the config symbols are rebuilt.
*
* So if the user changes his CONFIG_HIS_DRIVER option, only the objects
* which depend on "include/config/HIS_DRIVER" will be rebuilt,
* so most likely only his driver ;-)
* So if the user changes their CONFIG_USER_DRIVER option, only the objects
* which depend on "include/config/USER_DRIVER" will be rebuilt,
* so most likely only the user's driver ;-)
*
* The idea above dates, by the way, back to Michael E Chastain, AFAIK.
*