2004-04-16 13:13:10

by Karel Kulhavy

Subject: help not functional in make menuconfig kernel 2.6.3

Hello

linux kernel 2.6.3
Device Drivers -> Character devices
the following entries have non-functional Help. Symptoms: after
placing the cursor on < Help > and pressing enter the screen is cleared
and redrawn again. No help is displayed at all.

Parallel printer support
Support for user-space parallel port device drivers
Texas instruments parallel link cable support
QIC-02 tape support

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2004-04-16 22:35:00

by Randy.Dunlap

Subject: Re: help not functional in make menuconfig kernel 2.6.3

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:13:07 +0200 Karel Kulhavy wrote:

| Hello
|
| linux kernel 2.6.3
| Device Drivers -> Character devices
| the following entries have non-functional Help. Symptoms: after
| placing the cursor on < Help > and pressing enter the screen is cleared
| and redrawn again. No help is displayed at all.
|
| Parallel printer support
| Support for user-space parallel port device drivers
| Texas instruments parallel link cable support
| QIC-02 tape support

I'm using 2.6.5...

All of these config entries have help text and they all work
for me. Please try a newer kernel. After all, 2.6.3 is about
2 months old now.

--
~Randy