Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 08 Feb 1998 15:46:32 -0400 | From | "Garst R. Reese" <> | Subject | Re: Patch: 2.1.85: Bugfix: LP device selection |
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> From: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk> > Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 12:00:59 +0000 (GMT) > Subject: Re: Patch: 2.1.85: Bugfix: LP device selection
> On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Adam Heath wrote:
>> When specifying lp devices to be associated with parport devices, lp.c says to >> use parport=-1,0 to make it work like 2.0. However, this doesn't work as >> advertised. It insists on makes lp0=parport0. The following *simple* patch >> fixes this, at least for me. All it does it move one line lower in the file.
> I don't think that quite gives the intended behaviour either. Below is a > patch to allow -1,0 to work as *well* as just leaving out the parameters.
> There's still a small problem with loading lp as a module in this way, in > that if you are using kerneld to load parport for you, you'll get parport0 > the first time but parport1 after parport0 goes away. That's what you call a 'small problem'? Joe user uses kerneld, does not specify parameters and his printer works once, then mysteriously quits. -- Garst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
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