Package: linux-image-2.6 Severity: normal Tags: patch 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 it compiles and runs perfectly. Applied to some Dell hardware, now the EPP mode is detected and, after some initial tests it's working. I don't have any hope that it would be solved in the linux kernel, but at least in the debian kernel it could be applied. 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 -- -- Linux User 152692 Catalonia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
