From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 06:30:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 06:30:09 -0400 Received: from i2260.vwr.wanadoo.nl ([194.134.216.221]:26752 "HELO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 06:30:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:24:34 +0200 From: Remi Turk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Axel Boldt , Phil Blundell Subject: [PATCH] Configure.help: Message-ID: <20010606122434.B859@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Axel Boldt , Phil Blundell Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, it seems the Configure.help text for CONFIG_LP_CONSOLE is incorrect: The default is to stall until the printer is ready while the help text says the opposite. (vi +540 drivers/char/lp.c) Attached is a patch for 2.4.6-pre1 which fixes the help text. Also, shouldn't CONFIG_LP_CONSOLE depend on CONFIG_PRINTER=y? (it doesn't work when CONFIG_PRINTER=m, at least for me) -- Linux 2.4.5-ac9 #3 Wed Jun 6 11:15:40 CEST 2001 --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Configure.help.patch" diff -ur --new-file linux-2.4.6-pre1/Documentation/Configure.help linux-2.4.6-pre1.new/Documentation/Configure.help --- linux-2.4.6-pre1/Documentation/Configure.help Wed Jun 6 11:54:24 2001 +++ linux-2.4.6-pre1.new/Documentation/Configure.help Wed Jun 6 11:54:32 2001 @@ -13014,10 +13014,12 @@ doing that; to actually get it to happen you need to pass the option "console=lp0" to the kernel at boot time. - Note that kernel messages can get lost if the printer is out of - paper (or off, or unplugged, or too busy..), but this behaviour - can be changed. See drivers/char/lp.c (do this at your own risk). - + If the printer is out of paper (or off, or unplugged, or too + busy..) the kernel will stall until the printer is ready again. + By defining CONSOLE_LP_STRICT to 0 (at your own risk) you + can make the kernel continue when this happens, + but it'll lose the kernel messages. + If unsure, say N. Support for user-space parallel port device drivers --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR--