On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda > <l...@alaxarxa.net> wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> sorry for the noise and my mistake. The patch... >> >> 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.
Moreover they are more detail about this bug here you should contact davbid campell http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-parport/2004-March/000048.html Bastien >> As Adam Baker said [1] : >> >> <quote> >> A long time ago (~ 10 years), Intel produced a chipset that > > Why not check dmi years for this test and do the test only for board > before 2000 ? Better safe than sorry > > Bastien > > > >> 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. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Leo >> >> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-parport/2008-March/000628.html >> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284471 >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Adam Baker <linux at baker-net.org.uk> >> Signed-off-by: Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <l...@alaxarxa.net> >> >> >> --- >> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
