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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.4.12 / linux-2.4.13 parallel port problem
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:41:02 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ioWB7.5038$rR5.921319585@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011024230917.H7544@redhat.com>

In article <20011024230917.H7544@redhat.com>,
Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> wrote:

| On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:53:56PM +0100, Dave Garry wrote:
| 
| > modprobe verbose_probing=1 irq=7 gives exactly the same results.
| 
| This turned out to be because parport_pc ignores a supplied irq when
| no io parameter is also supplied.  'io=0x378 irq=7' works fine.

Thank you... that sure doesn't jump out at someone, it generates no
error message, etc.

Question: is this intended behaviour? I would think that you would
normally want to just say irq=auto and let the driver find the io
address just as it does normally.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  His first management concern is not solving the problem, but covering
his ass. If he lived in the middle ages he'd wear his codpiece backward.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-25 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-24 13:16 linux-2.4.12 / linux-2.4.13 parallel port problem Dave Garry
2001-10-24 13:36 ` Tim Waugh
2001-10-24 15:02   ` Dave Garry
2001-10-24 15:05     ` Tim Waugh
2001-10-24 15:53       ` Dave Garry
2001-10-24 21:54         ` bill davidsen
2001-10-24 22:09           ` Tim Waugh
2001-10-24 22:09         ` Tim Waugh
2001-10-25 15:41           ` bill davidsen [this message]
2001-10-25 15:52             ` Tim Waugh
2001-10-26  7:51               ` junio
2001-10-26  9:41                 ` [patch] " Tim Waugh
2001-10-26 13:26                   ` Dave Garry
2001-10-26 18:00                     ` Tim Waugh
2001-10-28  4:14                   ` junio
2001-10-24 14:46 f5ibh
2001-10-24 14:40 ` Tim Waugh

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