> It would seem that recent kernels have changed parport behaviour. It now
> detects IRQs and then tells you that it won't use them until you explicitly
> enable them in /proc. Sounds a bit silly to me. I'm now faced with having
> to postexec something from modprobe every time parport loads, grep
> something out of /proc/parport/0/hardware and echo it to the irq
> 'file'. Is there a way to force parport to just use the irq's it finds?
Yes. If you are using modules, put this in /etc/modules.conf:
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=auto
If you have parport statically compiled into the kernel, put this in your
command-line:
parport=auto
Tim.
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