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>
---
 scripts/basic/fixdep.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
index cdd5da7e009b..54063d980442 100644
--- a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
+++ b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
@@ -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.
  *
-- 
2.55.0

On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:59:39 -0600, Elsie Heck wrote:
> fixdep: make gendered language gender-neutral

Personally, I think CONFIG_SOME_DRIVERS would be even better, but
changing it to whatever is a good thing.  Thanks.


Applied to kbuild/linux.git (kbuild-next-unstable), thanks!

[1/1] fixdep: make gendered language gender-neutral
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/26171fab

Please look out for regression or issue reports or other follow up
comments, as they may result in the patch/series getting dropped,
reverted or modified (e.g. trailers).

Patches applied to the kbuild-next-unstable branch are accepted pending
wider testing in linux-next and any post-commit review; they will
generally be moved to the kbuild-next branch in about a week if no
issues are found.

Best regards,
-- 
Nicolas