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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index ac25833eb19e..98c3a5d8003e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ config TTY_PRINTK tristate "TTY driver to output user messages via printk" depends on EXPERT && TTY default n - ---help--- + help If you say Y here, the support for writing user messages (i.e. console messages) via printk is available. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ config TTY_PRINTK_LEVEL config PRINTER tristate "Parallel printer support" depends on PARPORT - ---help--- + help If you intend to attach a printer to the parallel port of your Linux box (as opposed to using a serial printer; if the connector at the printer has 9 or 25 holes ["female"], then it's serial), say Y. @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ config PRINTER config LP_CONSOLE bool "Support for console on line printer" depends on PRINTER - ---help--- + help If you want kernel messages to be printed out as they occur, you can have a console on the printer. This option adds support for doing that; to actually get it to happen you need to pass the @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ config LP_CONSOLE config PPDEV tristate "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers" depends on PARPORT - ---help--- + help Saying Y to this adds support for /dev/parport device nodes. This is needed for programs that want portable access to the parallel port, for instance deviceid (which displays Plug-and-Play device @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ config DS1620 config NWBUTTON tristate "NetWinder Button" depends on ARCH_NETWINDER - ---help--- + help If you say Y here and create a character device node /dev/nwbutton with major and minor numbers 10 and 158 ("man mknod"), then every time the orange button is pressed a number of times, the number of @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ config NWBUTTON_REBOOT config NWFLASH tristate "NetWinder flash support" depends on ARCH_NETWINDER - ---help--- + help If you say Y here and create a character device /dev/flash with major 10 and minor 160 you can manipulate the flash ROM containing the NetWinder firmware. Be careful as accidentally overwriting the @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ config XILINX_HWICAP config R3964 tristate "Siemens R3964 line discipline" depends on TTY && BROKEN - ---help--- + help This driver allows synchronous communication with devices using the Siemens R3964 packet protocol. Unless you are dealing with special hardware like PLCs, you are unlikely to need this. @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ config R3964 config APPLICOM tristate "Applicom intelligent fieldbus card support" depends on PCI - ---help--- + help This driver provides the kernel-side support for the intelligent fieldbus cards made by Applicom International. More information about these cards can be found on the WWW at the address @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ config APPLICOM config SONYPI tristate "Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device support" depends on X86_32 && PCI && INPUT - ---help--- + help This driver enables access to the Sony Programmable I/O Control Device which can be found in many (all ?) Sony Vaio laptops. @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ config MWAVE tristate "ACP Modem (Mwave) support" depends on X86 && TTY select SERIAL_8250 - ---help--- + help The ACP modem (Mwave) for Linux is a WinModem. It is composed of a kernel driver and a user level application. Together these components support direct attachment to public switched telephone networks (PSTNs) @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ config NVRAM tristate "/dev/nvram support" depends on X86 || HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS default M68K || PPC - ---help--- + help If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"), you get read and write access to the non-volatile memory. |