Bug#630593: The Intel parport bug
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
>> After such a long time it is probably
>> appropriate to just remove the test
> [...]
>> 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
>
> I think otherwise: this patch should be a shoe-in
For history divers: the quirk was introduced between 2.3.10pre5 and
2.3.10 (thanks to Dave Jones for the git tree that makes such searches
easy!). That means some time around June or July, 1999. At the time
Tim Waugh seems to have been an active parport_pc user, so maybe it
would be worth getting his thoughts on such a patch, too, in the vague
hope that he remembers --- though it _is_ a long time ago.
Sorry for the noise; I forgot to mention that when sending the first
message.
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