On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 04:43:38PM -0400, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2000, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > > Generally with an HC driver, it either works or doesn't. Text stair
> > > > > stepping while printing usually isn't something an HC driver can
> > > > > cause.
> > > >
> > > > Well, I've your HC driver that randomly breaks on my ELSA modem and
> > > > works fine otherwise... (I know you suggested me to do _something_ but
> > > > I forgot what. Turning off fsbr does not work. Can you please adwise
> > > > me again?)
> > >
> > > You can also try disabling the APC Workaround/Kludge.
> >
> > Well, that helped. Now ELSA seems to be working. (Diff is here:)
> >
> > We definitely need way to disable this. (Or is this kludge doable on
> > per-device basis?)
>
> [patch snipped]
>
> Let's take the kludge out for now. Could you send this patch to Linus for
> inclusion in the next release? It's best to leave it #define'd out for
> now since it does more harm than good.
>
> I've been thinking about a way to deal with APC UPS' in a HC independant
> way and without a kludge, but I've been busy hacking on other more
> important code.
>
> I'll come back to it eventually, but one device's broken behaviour is
> the least of my worries :)
Ok, patch queued to be sent to Linus.
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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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