Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:52:22 +0200 | From | matthieu castet <> | Subject | Re: [Bug 11603] Re: ACPI PnP on Intel MU440EX |
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Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> If you want you could try to run the attached program on your pc in >> "auto/bidirectional" or "auto/EPP" mode. >> >> This program does what _STA methods do. > > I'm just curious -- what do you hope to learn from this program? > Do you think it will tell us more than what actually running _STA > did? > Yes I was curious of the value before the mask : some of the mask and comparaison look strange.
> The best solution I can think of would be to have a parameter like > "parport.nopnp" that made parport just probe the legacy addresses, > and document that you might need that on machines with broken ACPI > firmware. But I'm a little afraid to touch parport_pc.c. Aren't parport still probing it's own port if pnp failed ?
Matthieu
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