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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: jdow <jdow@earthlink.net>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: problem with "Gadget filesystem" config prompt (bk10)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:02:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030908230224.GA3047@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <043301c37659$d0074490$2eedfea9@kittycat>

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:37:40PM -0700, jdow wrote:
> From: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com> Monday, 2003 September, 08 15:11
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:40:46AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > >   just doing a "make oldconfig", from bk9 -> bk10, being prompted for
> the
> > > USB_GADGETFS (Gadget filesystem), which asks
> > >
> > >   ... [N/m/?]  (NEW)
> > >
> > > without thinking, i typed "y" (not noticing that that was not a valid
> > > answer), and what i got back was:
> > >
> > > Say "y" to link the driver statically, or "m" to build a
> > > dynamically linked module called "gadgetfs".
> > >
> > >   which suggests that "y" *is* a valid response (when clearly it isn't).
> > > someone might want to clarify this.
> >
> > You got the help information for this option.  And "y" is a valid option
> > if one of the parent options is selected as "y".  Not much you can do
> > here...
> 
> Perhaps the incorrect prompt could be fixed?

Patches are always welcome.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-08 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-08 15:40 Robert P. J. Day
2003-09-08 22:11 ` Greg KH
2003-09-08 22:37   ` jdow
2003-09-08 23:02     ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-09-09  0:20       ` Kevin P. Fleming

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