On 17-Nov-98 Philip Blundell wrote:
>>My Linux systems hang during booting if there is a QuickCam VC connected to
>>a Parallel port and PnP Parport probing is enabled. They continue again as
>>soon as you unplug the camera, but it's a pain when dual-booting. Here's a
>
> Your fix doesn't look right. The IEEE1284 code is supposed to cope with
> peripherals not responding as expected - obviously this isn't working. Can
> you try to find out why?
read_polled basically isn't timing out at all if the device responds
incorrectly - it's blipping AutoFeed as far as I can tell, but getting
a response back every time. (Not sure if I've read the code correctly.)
Ryan O'Connell - http://mipc-01.brunel.ac.uk:8080/
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