On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:33:18AM +0200, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > Hi, > > there's a bug in the parport module that have been reported (in another > places) some time ago [1]. Also, this bug was reported at Redhat [2], but > nobody follow the report and it was closed. > > As Adam baked said [1] : > > <quote> > A long time ago (~ 10 years), Intel produced a chipset that > included broken EPP support. The Linux parport driver was written to detect > such a chipset and disable EPP support on it. Unfortunately the test that was > written gives false positives for many current chipsets and no-one seems to > know exactly what the problem hardware was, let alone have a sample of it to > see if a better test can be written. After such a long time it is probably > appropriate to just remove the test (on average it does more harm than good) > however you are correct in asserting the driver is unmaintained so no-one is > bothering to fix it. > </quote> > > I have applied the patch to the standard debian kernel and vanilla kernels > and > runs perfectly. The patch simply erases a check. Applied to some Dell > hardware, now the EPP mode is detected and, after some initial tests it's > working. > > Please, apply the patch.
Please resend it with the proper Signed-off-by: line, as described by Documentation/SubmittingPatches and we will be glad to consider it. thanks, greg k-h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org