Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm4

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:55:08PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:37:42 PDT, Randy Dunlap said:
> >
> > Good luck.  But the symbols are there.  Just use left/right arrow keys
> > to scroll the display left/right and you can see them.  Now if you just
> > had that indicator to tell you that you Need to scroll to see more text...
> 
> Exactly. :)  I had the incredible bad luck that the line got cut off at the
> end of a CONFIG_ symbol that made sense - if it had showed up *half* a symbol,
> I'd have gone investigating. ;) (Even a '>' or '<' saying data offscreen to
> right or left would be sufficient, if somebody wants a small but productive
> kernel (config system actually) task to hack on.)
> 
> I'd code it myself, but I have an SL8500 to install, and need to figure out
> how my laptop made it into the bag this morning still up and running (I hit
> the power button, it seemed to power down - blank screen, power light off,
> but syslog msgs prove it was up and running for another 4 hours before it
> shut down on a thermal check...)

If you do not find time to do it try to ping me in a week or so.
Should be trivial to do but away from my dev box atm.

   Sam