Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422633AbWBNVFk (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:05:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422648AbWBNVFk (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:05:40 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.199]:65449 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422633AbWBNVFj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:05:39 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=NoFcFV/QHEqVcsYb7R3xPfSODaiFqZTZ+skpnq+ohNEFthCGtuaaStbKwivHQPRCuCJ5XUc2xj1p5OI6zNPydEvjuMWxW80Zrl7EQQIU7NZkzjdQpDaTI3iTGrIov8gj0FXLzbgcQONhPYk8t9AoqsUjvIWtTAgA/fPLjyQQxLE= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:05:37 +0100 From: Luca Falavigna To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: [PATCH] CONSOLE_LP_STRICT Kconfig option MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2768 Lines: 82 This patch, built against kernel version 2.6.16-rc3, provides a Kconfig option in order to easily enable or disable CONSOLE_LP_STRICT variable in drivers/char/lp.c without modifying it directly. Signed-off-by: Luca Falavigna --- linux-2.6.16-rc3/drivers/char/lp.c.orig 2006-01-08 16:48:14.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc3/drivers/char/lp.c 2006-02-14 13:43:41.000000000 +0100 @@ -686,9 +686,13 @@ static struct file_operations lp_fops = #define CONSOLE_LP 0 /* If the printer is out of paper, we can either lose the messages or - * stall until the printer is happy again. Define CONSOLE_LP_STRICT - * non-zero to get the latter behaviour. */ -#define CONSOLE_LP_STRICT 1 + * stall until the printer is happy again. If CONSOLE_LP_STRICT is + * non-zero to, we get the latter behaviour. */ +#ifdef CONFIG_LP_CONSOLE_STRICT +# define CONSOLE_LP_STRICT 1 +#else +# define CONSOLE_LP_STRICT 0 +#endif /* The console must be locked when we get here. */ @@ -697,7 +701,7 @@ static void lp_console_write (struct con { struct pardevice *dev = lp_table[CONSOLE_LP].dev; struct parport *port = dev->port; - ssize_t written; + ssize_t written = 0; if (parport_claim (dev)) /* Nothing we can do. */ --- linux-2.6.16-rc3/drivers/char/Kconfig.orig 2006-02-14 00:14:08.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc3/drivers/char/Kconfig 2006-02-14 13:47:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -512,14 +512,21 @@ config LP_CONSOLE doing that; to actually get it to happen you need to pass the option "console=lp0" to the kernel at boot time. - 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. +config LP_CONSOLE_STRICT + bool "Wait for a ready printer" + depends on LP_CONSOLE + default y + ---help--- + With this option enabled, 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 turning this option off (at your own risk), you + can make the kernel continue when this happens, but it will lose + some kernel messages. + + If unsure, say Y + config PPDEV tristate "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers" depends on PARPORT Regards, -- Luca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/