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. > > 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-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cae2spaatxqkfuexinc3eap3t4eihqipxvcd7vpzg23xycy4...@mail.gmail.com