Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:09:54 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] Add force_epp module option for parport_pc. |
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:56:15AM +0400, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Greg KH wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:01:51AM +0400, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote: > >>>From cf37d0cc4d51da5c0b368e1f5ab05082c041d1e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > >>From: "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey.kornilov@gmail.com> > >>Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 01:08:45 +0400 > >>Subject: [PATCHv3 2/2] Add force_epp module option for parport_pc. > >> > >>The detection of Intel EPP bug is known to produce much false positives. > >>The new option is introduced to force enable EPP in spite of the test result. > > Hi, > > First of all, maybe I missed something fundamental, or did something wrong, > but I can't understand how is it going to break working systems?
I thought you disabled the quirk test and now rely on the module option instead. That would require a machine that was happily relying on the quirk test to now be forced to add a module option, right?
Or did I read the patch incorrectly?
Why not implement Alan's suggestion?
thanks,
greg k-h
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