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
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
